Archive for the 'Authenticity' Category

Just Say Sorry

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

I read a press release this morning in which the first line was, “Big business has fallen from grace.” I come from a generation and a belief that the greatest agent for change in our world is big business. I’ve also come to the conclusion that, very often, big business does not understand, or know [...]

How to Manage Effectively in the 21st Century?

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

One of the themes of our work is the simplification of complex ideas, distilling them into easy to understand and apply processes. We have found that nothing gets done if people can’t understand how to do it – no matter how brilliant the suggested solution might be I recently came across a noble idea – [...]

Goodbye Twitter!

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Call me a Luddite or worse, but I finally pulled the plug on Twitter last week. There were two reasons: according to Chris Barth’s blog, “…the service has come under fire from a lot of different angles – it promotes overexposure, it doesn’t make any money, and it has limited policing making it difficult to [...]

Dr. Mercola’s 8 Tips for an Effective Life

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Dr. Joseph Mercola publishes one of the largest circulation newsletters in the world. It is dedicated to wellness and always contains useful tips. He ranges across education, technology, healthcare and medical insights. Here is one of his most recent articles that I wanted to share with you, in which he writes about 8 skills we [...]

Life Lessons from Shirley

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Part of my volunteer responsibilities as a Copper Mountain Ambassador is to take visitors who are unfamiliar with the area on a mountain tour. This week I took Shirley Ziebarth touring. She made it clear to me that she only wanted to ski advanced terrain. No beginner or intermediate stuff for her! As we began, [...]