Archive for 2009

This is the headline of  a story included in a book I’m reading at the moment. It is Mitch Albom’s newest book, Have a Little Faith.  One of my core team members was kind enough to give me the book for Christmas at our recent Holiday dinner.  I like Mitch Albom’s work (he authored the [...]

OK, so we’re finally actually LIVING IN our new home.  Yeeehahhhh!! It feels a lot better than the sense of living nowhere during the interim.  There’s still plenty of work to do and we’ve got friends coming over Friday for a Christmas gathering plus coming from out of town for Christmas and New Years, arriving [...]

Hellooooo out there in blogland. Two months since my last posting.  Ouch!  I have been preoccupied with work, travels, new projects, and most importantly, buying, renovating, and moving into a new home. The process isn’t done yet, but we’re almost there.  I find that these things are always larger undertakings than one imagines.  They’re not [...]

Dear readers, For those of you in the Northern Hemisphere, doesn’t this time of year feel to you like a new year?  To me it does.  In fact, in many ways it feels more like a new year than January 1st does. Summer vacations are over, the kids have gone back to school, the weather [...]

I’m managing a lot of change in my life at the moment, hence this entry. As a result of all the change happening I am re-reading sections of an excellent book my coach recommended to me a couple of years ago.  The book is called The Anatomy of Change: A way to move through life’s [...]

Hi everyone.  I’m baaaack!   As you can see from the date of this post, I’ve been back for a while – and I’ve been busy. It was a great trip.  Mixed in many ways: difficult physically sometimes, up and down emotionally, full of incredible natural beauty, and in some ways almost surreal.  Sometimes I think [...]

I'm excited to be writing about an adventure I'll be taking in just under 3 weeks. I will be headed to Greenland, hiking and sea kayaking with a group of people in order to raise funds for a Quebec-based charitable organization called "On the Tip of the Toes Foundation" http://pointedespieds.com/index.php?id=1&lang=eng.  This organization takes teenagers living [...]

In the past few months I've been spending a lot of time and energy considering some important choices about my professional life.  It has not been easy.  In fact, as I reviewed my journal from the past 18 months, I saw that this journey has been in process over that period.  As I sit here [...]

I have recently been reading many debriefs of negotiation experiences written by bright, talented MBA (Masters of Business Administration) students.  I had the pleasure of teaching these students over the past 2 months while on assignment as a Visiting Professor here at INSEAD in France. It has been fascinating to read their experiences. One theme [...]

Greetings from France, blog readers.   I am spending 2 months here while teaching at a University near Paris (a great place to be as spring approaches), and I came across a very interesting book that my wife picked up.  It is called "French Women Don't Get Fat", by Mireille Giuliano (a French national married [...]