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How to Respond to Violence
As you know, Val Kilmer passed away recently. One of the most iconic scenes in movie history is from “Tombstone” in which he plays Doc Holliday (Kurt Russell playing Wyatt Earp). Everything about this vignette is perfect – acting, photography and message. I offer it to you today as a metaphor for how one deals with violence.
What are your thoughts?
https://youtu.be/MICPyrnGYwg?si=L1LNwqoLd3Tfayie
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Cheer up!
It seems that we can’t open our news feeds these days without reading another depressing headline. So, here is my antidote for you today: First, Visit www.inspirepledge.com and make a commitment to being your best, inspiring self today, and just as...
A Weekly Shot of Inspiration
Last March, I invited people to join me in an experimental weekly Zoom video call for some mutual inspiration. The original intention was to provide support to frontline workers during Covid. I committed to hosting these sessions for one month, but everyone was...
Bromides are Not Enough – Actions Speak Louder Than Fluffy Words
When we emerge from the worst of Covid-19, we will judge companies, and patronise their firms (or not), based on how they behaved during these challenging times. I received an email today with a lot of fluffy bromides from the chairman of Canada’s largest employer...
The Responsibility to Use our Voices
For better or worse, as a result of the career I have chosen, I am blessed to have a voice, a platform, and an audience. All of us, whether we have a voice and a platform or not, have a responsibility to speak up in these pivotal times, because we have a chance to...
Good Timber – from Inspiration in the Cloud
During our "Inspiration in the Cloud" Zoom video call today, I shared this poem with all of the participants who joined our weekly 30-minute inspiring conversation. The poem is starkly gender-insensitive, but, remember, he died before I was born! (Honestly, I...
The Calf-Path – Lessons for Life!
This is a lovely poem which I read this morning during our "Inspiration in the Cloud" public Zoom call. It speaks so well to the notion that we are all connected and we are all ONE! Please join us again next Thursday at 1100 EST - you can register here:...
How Will You Choose to Be During Your COVID Quarantining?
COVID-19 – The Best Wake-up Call Humanity Has Ever Experienced?
Yes, we are probably going to have a recession. Yes, it is going to be very painful. As a leading physician has written, we are in for "some long and dark days ahead ". BUT........ Supposing this was the best wake-up call humanity has ever experienced in the last 100...
How to Be Inspired (and Inspiring) in a COVID-19 Era
You don’t need any message from me about what to do (social distancing, hand-washing, etc.). So let's look at this a little differently..... We have all been given the gift of time – what will you do with your gift? We have a golden opportunity to use this gift...
Leadership Models
In my day-to-day work with leaders globally, my conviction that leadership is broken becomes stronger with each new business model that I see. There is no laboratory better than the C-suite for observing the dizzying array of leadership models, and all their...
The Myth of Stress
A Buddhist parable tells the story of a monk confronted by a fierce tiger while on a quiet walk. The monk becomes motionless. He knows that just beyond him is a cliff and just below that cliff is the rocky shoreline and the turbulent sea. The monk is caught between...
Why Performance Management Programs Fail
Every Performance Management system I have ever seen over the years has typically focused on one thing: employee productivity (aka performance). In one case, I saw a program developed by a large international consulting firm for...
