Archive for Month: March 2020
Starting Lines and Finish Lines
I have always loved the Olympics. I get excited when amazing athletes line up on the starting line and get ready to give everything up to realize their dream. I watch nervously as the winning athlete approaches the finish line about to achieve a goal that she or he has invested a lifetime pursuing. I’m always thrilled to see the joy of actually achieving desired results. Sadly, at this point, we don’t even know when Read More
Vitality in Virtuality in a Covid 19 World
In 1995, I wrote a book on managing virtual teams. At the time, virtuality was in its infant stages. There was no Zoom, Hang Out, or High Five. The world wide web had only been invented in 1990. The internet, even in its excruciating slowness, still sparked the beginning of the virtual age. I taught virtual teaming at IBM and many other companies to introduce new ways of living, learning, and working in a more Read More
Gratitude for the Gift
“The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.” —Henri Nouwen I have always been intrigued by the small slice of time humans have inhabited the earth. Most scientists agree that the earth was formed about 4 billion years ago and humans, in our approximate form, have existed a maximum of 400,000 Read More