• Effectiveness, Musings

    Posted on December 13th, 2010

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    Effectiveness: Slowing Down

    I posed the following question in my blog, Giving Thanks, a couple of weeks ago: Have we, as a culture, lost the ability to pause? For the past week or so, I have been struck down with the flu. I mean STRUCK DOWN with the kind of sick where you can’t get out of bed, [...]

  • Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, S.H.A.P.E.

    Posted on December 5th, 2010

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    Emotional Intelligence: Givers and Takers

    I believe that in every interaction between people, there is a transaction of energy. In healthy relationships and normal transactions, there is give and take on both sides. Participants oscillate back and forth between being energy givers and energy takers. We give and we receive ideas, counsel and encouragement. We lean on others, and they [...]