Perspectives
What’s Your Personal Vision?
Well? Do you have one? I ask many people this question and I get very few coherent answers. This vision stuff is hard. It's easier to go with the flow but as Yogi Berra famously said, "If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else." You...
5 Signs Your Boss Lacks Intrapersonal Intelligence
OK, here we go again with the Friday "5 Signs" post. I tried to channel my inner "Bad Boss" but then I realized, just think of some of the worst people you've worked with before. So here it is, 5 signs that your boss lacks intrapersonal intelligence. S/he's a yeller....
Chip Conley – Emotional Equations
Chip has written some great stuff in his book Emotional Equations. He really speaks to this issue of Intrapersonal Intelligence, measuring what makes you happy. I found this TED Talk very enjoyable and thought you would too. I had trouble embedding the video so just...
Howard Gardner – Intrapersonal Intelligence
Lest you think I'm making up some of this stuff on Intrapersonal Intelligence, I want to introduce you to Howard Earl Gardner, an American developmental psychologist who is a fancy professor at Harvard. The author of over 20 books he is best known for his theory of...
Intrapersonal Skills
Every now and then you meet someone with extraordinary intrapersonal skills but chances are, you may not even know it. That's because you usually notice it only when someone has poor skills in this area. Someone without good intrapersonal skills might be timid, take...
5 People I Can’t Forgive
Yeah, I know I've spent all week talking about forgiving but not forgetting. In spite of that there are a few people that I just can't seem to forgive. These are my top 5. Ben and Jerry - In particular I can't forgive them for making a certain flavour known as half...
Truth and Reconciliation – South Africa
Perhaps the greatest modern example of "Forgive and Forget" is South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This was a court-like body assembled in South Africa after the abolition of apartheid. Individuals who were identified as victims of gross human rights...
Forgive and Forget
As a leader, you'll understand the need to forgive and forget and the poison that comes from holding a grudge. That is after all, what makes you a leader. The hard part isn't forgiving. The hard part is forgetting. When it comes down to it, in fact, should you even...
The Man and the Serpent
A Countryman's son by accident trod upon a Serpent's tail, which turned and bit him so that he died. The father in a rage got his axe, and pursuing the Serpent, cut off part of its tail. So the Serpent in revenge began stinging several of the Farmer's cattle and...