Positive Psychology was the topic of a recent article I was reading. There seems to be more and more being written about this subject over the past year or two. A lot of it has come from advances in Neuroscience in which researchers have been able to use imaging equipment…
Passion:
I had an interesting on-line conversation this past week with a classmate in a Coursera course I have been taking. If you are not familiar with Coursera it is part of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) phenomenon that offers hundreds of free university and college courses on-line. The discussion…
Lessons Learnt
In my previous post I recounted how I learned some important lessons from my personal search into leadership. I talked about how a number of years ago, I had become the “golden boy” within my organization. Everything was working for me, the region I was managing was the number one…
Leadership & Acts of God
This past week I attended the Art of Leadership conference in Vancouver. Among the five speakers was Rudy Giuliani, mayor of New York City during the 9/11 attacks, and Time’s 2001 Person of the year. Early in his speech he said something that resonated with me. He told the story…