Emotional Intelligence

Is It Blame or Is It Accountability? —  When we seek those  accountable for a particular failure, we risk blaming them instead,  because many of us confuse accountability with blame.  What’s the  difference between them?  How can we keep blame at bay?   Today’s reading comes from the Chaco Canyon newsletter.  In it Rick Brenner […]

It is very hard to get our work done without collaboration.  Sometimes those collaborators are on our team, sometimes in our organization, sometimes they are elsewhere in our university, and sometimes they are outside our university in suppliers, government agencies, etc.  When collaboration occurs things go well.  But sometimes it doesn’t;  our needed collaborators resist, […]

As all of your know by now, I read a lot from a lot of sources. Yesterday, a newsletter called Marketplace Moments written by a friend, Randy Kilgore, reached my desk.  It carries a story which I want to repeat:   “It’s December 17, 1941. The citizens of the town of North Platte, Nebraska heard […]

Rick Brenner of Chaco Canyon Consulting here in Boston has a weekly email newsletter called Point Lookout.  I like Rick’s writing because it typically leads you to think about a subject from a different point of view.  This is truly the case in this weeks reading “FedEx,  Flocks and Frames of Reference.”  In the piece […]

Marshall Goldsmith is one of the country’s leading executive coaches. Today’s reading is his column from the July 2005 issue of Fast Company:   http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/96/mgoldsmith.html   In this column Goldsmith talks about the importance of being a great listener.  He says that in listening “Your only aim is to let the other person feel that […]

Good morning!   In my reading this week, I found this short piece by John Baldoni.  In it he talks about the foundational importance of importance and suggests that you can nurture it by “inviting them to look up,” by “letting them see you sweat,” by “learning from your mistakes,” and by “radiating hope.” Enjoy…………..jim Weigh In: A Matter […]

The January 28th edition of CIO carried an insightful column by John Baldoni about motivation in the workplace.  I think tht you will find it interesting. …….jim http://bestnetarticles.blogspot.com/2009/09/donts-dos-of-creating-inspir…

As I was reading the current issue of Fast Company, I ran across a longer column reporting on a conversation with Joe Kraus on what he now knows.  Kraus was a founder of Excite that in 1996 became one of the biggest tech IPOs ever.  At 33 he is not starting Jotspot, a hosted Internet […]