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What You Say Matters
Tweet Following up on my post about the modes of communication I found this video by Simon Sinek on leadership, inspiration, and doing something meaningful important – Sinek explains how these are all tied together and need to be used at the same time. I believe that the message you are providing matters just as much as the mode you are communicating that message in and Sinek provides some great insights into making that message more important. Definitely some good lessons here for people and companies to think through when they communicate with people. … Read entire article »
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Does The Mode of Communication Matter?
Tweet Communication is at the heart of all things in life… finding the love of your life, raising a round of financing, getting a promotion, or enjoying life with friends and family. Some of those communications are obviously more critical than others and some are more time sensative than others as well. Living in a world where corporate training dollars fuels the research and instruction that permeates our training attention we are all well aware of the communication styles that research such as Myers-Briggs brings us. This is good and we all make efforts to adjust what we are saying depending on the type of person we are talking to (more data/less data, small talk/straight to the point, etc.). All of this focus on communication style seems to skip the relevance of … Read entire article »
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Traveling and Parenting
Tweet I have been on the road a lot more lately and I found myself the other day suddenly zoomed all the way back home with the help of text messaging and instant messaging. I was pleasantly working on some emails and out of the blue I started to receive text messages from my kids. First one, then the other, then the IM from my wife popped up. Here I was trying to stay focused on the work I was doing and I was pulled hundreds of miles away into Seattle responding to the kids, discussing with my wife the right approach to take, checking on the status of their grades online. Then diving into my lecture on responsibility in a few 140 character responses… it was only a matter of 10-15min… … Read entire article »
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The Definition of Running (Part 2 of 3)
Tweet If you haven’t read The Definition of Running (Part 1 of 3) – I recommend it before reading this post along with the others on my RunYourAge blog… Picking up from where we left off last time,beyond the skeleton changes and the changes to the muscles and tendons as a result of the skeletal changes, there are some interesting aspects of the feet specifically that make what we know as running possible. With so much obvious advancement of the human body, why is it that there remain so many different opinions of what running is and means? Our bodies have evolved into running machines. There is a wealth of modern evidence to support this, look at all of the different types of running and the different distances that we humans go. … Read entire article »
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Philosopher as Management Consultant
Tweet While reading Plato’s Republic recently, I came across his now famous Cave Allegory. I remember this from an old philosophy class I took and after reading it, I found that the philosophy text books and instructor did not do the metaphor justice. There was a lot of contextual information from the entire book, the time period that Plato was in, and the influences on Plato that made reading the metaphor in its original book more informative and interesting to think about. The essence of the metaphor is that there are prisoners at the bottom of the cave and these prisoners can talk to each other, but cannot see each other. The only things they have to look at all their lives are the shadow reflections of items from higher up in … Read entire article »
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