LL24: Distributed Leadership
As I described in the opening paragraph of the Leadership Lessons section of this blog, I follow a few blogs on leadership.  I came across a post from @metacool (Diego Rodriguez at Stanford School of Business) – here’s his post.  His post was on the Circle of Influence – a shift in the leadership paradigm.  The shift is from a centralized/concentrated center of power and more toward a networked and distributed/decentralized network of power – as best as I understand the concept. It has b

What is Spiritual – a Response
A few weeks ago, I posted on What is Spiritual.  Here is a response from one of my students about it.  I just asked him yesterday if I could post his comment.  Since the comments a bit hidden from the post, I wanted to post it for all of you to read.  It’s a great response.  We’re going to talk about it next Tuesday.  I love the dialogue. Thank you Adriel for your response.  Here’s what he said.  If you want to read my original post, please click here. I often say that the

Fruit Fast
So I went on a bit of a fruit fast this week.  I wanted to try it because some friends that worked at the farmer’s market gave me a great deal on fruit.  It’s also super healthy for you and evidently, the fruit fast gives your digestive system a break – because fruit is so easy to break down. Well, I did fruit for breakfast and lunch – as much as possible.  Then for dinner I ate meals that weren’t processed and super healthy.  It was a great week. I didn’t do it to lose weight, but I did do it for health.  When you stop eating all that processed stuff and you just healthy stuff – your body tells you right away that i

A Great Hook
Dum da dum dum Dum da dum dum daaaaah It doesn’t matter what it is that you do – but if you want people to remember it or check it out – have a great hook.  It doesn’t matter what your art form is.  It doesn’t matter what kind of content you create.  Everything that you do – that you want people to remember – needs a great hook. In music, it’s that line that people sing – sometimes it’s words, sometimes it’s just noise or a series of sounds that gives a song character. If you’re speaking, it’s the first thing that you say that makes your audience lean in to listen to th

The End
Time to end Extreme Poverty. The End (Jake’s Story) from Nuru International on Vimeo. You gotta watch this video.  Jake’s such an awesome guy, and he’s working hard to end poverty.  He founded Nuru International.  Let’s join him – or at least check out his story. Thanks guys. Posted in Ideas