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Feb 8, 2012, 5:25 pm
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The term diversity is taking on new distinctions. When it comes to boards tackling issues like funding, recruitment and delivery of services, thinking that challenges the status quo is important. One of the newer terms being applied to this is “diversity ... Comment - Like
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Feb 7, 2012, 12:00 pm
At times many of us have this experience of ourselves — we don’t have the ability to get what we want to get done, done. What ever the “it” is isn’t accomplished or dealt with. This experience has no relationship to how complex or simple the task is, we just find ourselves frozen, numb o... Comment - Like
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Feb 1, 2012, 2:37 pm
The point is that the Positively Powerful right thing to do is stay in action about what matters to you. Feelings are great but don’t let them get in the way of your vision. If you feel “bad” focus out on somebody else, contribute to them then spend time developing your business network of sup... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2012, 11:30 am
One of the opportunities to express ones leadership is to dressing to fit a new position. Whether it is moving from one senior level position to another or going to another organization, learn what the professional dress is for the place where you are or will be working. Notice what people at your l... Comment - Like
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Jan 30, 2012, 12:00 pm
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One of the diversity challenges many people are dealing with today are the four or five generations we have in the workplace. (If you don’t have different generations in your organization you might be missing out on a competitive advantage.) I’m one of ... Comment - Like
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Jan 25, 2012, 11:00 am
Observing the some organizations are saying about diversity it seems as though diversity and inclusion are the same and interchangeable. Not so. Diversity is difference and inclusion is how the differences between people are embraced. This speaks to the culture, the context, the environment within w... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 1:00 pm
One way to look at social media is to think of it as a set of tools that can assist you in doing what you’ve been doing all along. The key is what have you been doing? If you have been a social wall flower for most of you life then Twitter, FaceBook etc. will not turn you magically into Truman Cap... Comment - Like
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Jan 23, 2012, 9:00 am
The most powerful way to act is “I choose everything, including my attitude, my feelings, and my words.” Notice I did not say that you do, in fact, chose everything. Rather I said to act as though you do. And with this recognize that there are no .
How to Be a Positively Powerful Person – Dr.... Comment - Like
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Jan 22, 2012, 6:33 pm
I am getting ready to go on a trip for one of my favorite clients in Florida. Being a little anal, I have a list that I use for packing so I don’t forget anything. It looks like this…(photo from iPhone) As I was packing and checking things off, I had a revelation. Asking my daughter to chime in ... Comment - Like
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Jan 20, 2012, 7:55 pm
It’s great being liked by those you are managing but not at the expense of your customer, team or company. As the expression goes, “you pay your prices now or later with penalty and interest”. Once your direct reports realize that you have a higher calling – insuring that everyone has a j... Comment - Like
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Jan 20, 2012, 10:00 am
When talking about team alignment, let’s not make it more complicated then it need be. Hyping it up with terms like “Buying In”, “Synthesized Collaboration” or the totally incomprehensible “To Achieve Clear Compelling, Strategic, Healthy, Productive and Purposeful Goals” heard by most ... Comment - Like
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Jan 17, 2012, 3:41 pm
You can’t create your vision by yourself. Success is created with and through others. There are three communication skills that will serve you well: Networking which involves creating relationship; enrollment, or creating partnership in the vision; and alignment, or building a harmonious synergist... Comment - Like
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Jan 17, 2012, 6:56 am
Hopefully, everyone gets a chance to see the new film “Red Tails”, which tells the true story of African American World War II pilots – the Tuskegee Airmen. It opens on Friday January 20, 2012. But, just in case you don’t do movies, but are still fascinated by black “flight”, the Smithso... Comment - Like
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Jan 14, 2012, 10:44 am
The National Civil Rights Museum honored Susan L. Taylor with the 2011 Freedom Award for Activism recently. Details follow in this special report from author and activist asha bandele.
After nearly four decades—three of which were at the helm—Susan left Essence Magazine in 2007 to lead the Na... Comment - Like
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Jan 12, 2012, 11:08 am
Just see this movie, make up your own mind and then see it again and come to a different conclusion and repeat. Give up on getting it right or choosing sides – it’s great or it’s horrible – take your side. Comment - Like
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Jan 12, 2012, 7:43 am
In our last Conversation On Leadership, we had a dialog about Original Thought, what it was and how it impacted our lives and effectiveness as Leaders. Rather than having something happen with newscasters giving us their editorial opinions,tweets stating the trends and face book friends that we li... Comment - Like
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Jan 9, 2012, 9:30 am
POSITIVELY POWERFUL:
Leaders are aware of the impact they have on others. From my studies of behavioral science, I’ve learned the four ways of communicating that influence behavior. By identifying them and using them intentionally in your life, you will produce effects. The first is positive rein... Comment - Like
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Jan 5, 2012, 12:00 pm
POSITIVELY POWERFUL:
Our minds can justify anything
to be right. People can break up relationships to be right. They can be dead wrong driving on the highway wanting to be right. They will deny themselves the riches they deserve in life, to be right about “how wrong they are.”
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Jan 4, 2012, 10:24 am
Le Carré’s depiction of intelligence operators or “spies” is that they are people who are for the most part not physically gifted and deal with their work as if they were sitting at a giant chess board. They like puzzles and believe if they stare at something long enough it will begin to... Comment - Like
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Jan 3, 2012, 11:00 am
POSITIVELY POWERFUL: We each come into the world as perfectly positive powerful little people, but as a result of what we decide about the
actions and words or lack of action and words of others, we little boys and girls will either grow up feeling loved or unloved, wanted or unwanted, precious o... Comment - Like
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Dec 30, 2011, 5:21 pm
“Harriet Beecher Stowe.” Ohio Historical Center Archives Library. Call Number MSS0116 Box 106.
POSITIVELY POWERFUL: When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and ... Comment - Like
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Dec 29, 2011, 8:37 am
Organizations have as their goal becoming mature, well managed companies delivering consistently on the service or products for which they are or wish to become known. They use branding and taglines to assist them with that figuring that customers will come back time and time again for the what thes... Comment - Like
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Dec 27, 2011, 8:11 am
In my work with several mature organizations, I have found that challenges exist that unless tackled, have the potential to create gridlock, stagnation, lose of intellectual capital, employee disengagement and insufficient personnel to run them in the future. These challenges put an organization at ... Comment - Like
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Dec 27, 2011, 7:37 am
Must admit, Hugo was a delightful surprise and it should not have been! On first learning that Martin Scorsese had succumbed to the 3D craze I wrongfully expected a film totally dependent on visual gimmicks. Scorsese has always been a masterful story teller and Hugo is no exception and it is the s... Comment - Like
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Dec 26, 2011, 6:31 am
The busy and thriving Brooklyn Museum presents – Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties, until January 29, 2012. The exhibition “brings together for the first time the work of sixty-eight painters, sculptors, and photographers who explored a new mode of modern realism in the years bo... Comment - Like
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Dec 24, 2011, 10:04 am
“Don’t let anyone steal your Joy” was a take away for me from the sermon delivered by Rev. Benjamin Thomas, Pastor of Tanner Chapel in Phoenix. Whenever “the world” is celebrating and you feel you are not like during the holidays, it is a choice to feel the Joy or not. That means you can c... Comment - Like
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Dec 19, 2011, 11:29 pm
Dan Hicks will be celebrating his 70th birthday Friday, April 6, 8:00pm at Davies Symphony Hall (SF Jazz 2012) with a reunion of the Hot Licks band and promising special guest joining in. I love when the artist preforms for his/her on celebration. On April 19th, Anoushka Shankar will be at the H... Comment - Like
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Dec 6, 2011, 4:55 pm
Got the opportunity to have a chat with Photographer Dee Dee Woods about being an artist, the “African American Art Community” in Phoenix, her father Rip Woods and the contribution that art makes to the community. Comment - Like
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Dec 4, 2011, 1:54 pm
Painting, Music, Fashion, Dance and Theater appears to launch itself from New York. This is not necessarily true and yet the feeling that if you want to experience something first, that you have to live in that Big City. If you live some place other then New York, you are always waiting for the... Comment - Like
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Nov 30, 2011, 4:30 pm
“Collected. Ritual explores the performative and process-oriented aspects of making art and examines ritual as an act of special and sometimes mythical significance. The works in this exhibition were chosen for the innovative ways in which the artists engaged with ritual—including through studio... Comment - Like
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Nov 23, 2011, 6:00 am
Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, 1830-1903, will have his work on view at the San Francisco Legion of Honor Museum until January 2012. The exhibit called “Pissarro’s People”, features mostly portraits of the people that surrounded him, rather than his famous landscapes. “Pissarro’... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2011, 10:40 am
This Saturday, Nov. 26 at the Rhythm Room in Phoenix, Black Poet Ventures present “Cool Like That” : A Tribute To the Genius of Miles Davis” Comment - Like
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Oct 20, 2011, 3:34 pm
Burton Silverman is an artist whose work for me at the age of 83 is still vibrant and authentic. There is a gracefulness in his paintings that I don’t generally find in most realistic paintings. If you have not seen his work before visit the Hofstra University Museum, this exhibit will up until De... Comment - Like
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Oct 20, 2011, 9:48 am
A few years ago, I watched an entertaining documentary called “Herb & Dorothy” as part of the PBS “Independent Lens” series. I just noticed that its now on DVD! Herb & Dorothy Vogel collected art – it was their passion. These 2 acquired so many canvases and sculptures that they ran out of ... Comment - Like
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Oct 17, 2011, 12:07 pm
Last week I had the opportunity to chat with Joan Waters about her new exhibit at the Chandler Center for the Arts, on being an artist and the people who played a role in her career. Here is a portion of what we talked about. Undivided Attention: New Work in welded Steel and Paint by Comment - Like
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Oct 12, 2011, 7:01 am
The Whitney Museum in NYC has a new presentation exploring the work of real and surreal artists of the last century. “This exhibition, drawn entirely from the deep holdings of the Whitney Museum’s permanent collection, will focus on the tension and overlap between two strong currents in twenti... Comment - Like
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Oct 1, 2011, 7:11 am
If you like the theater and/or you dance sing, act – you know about the audition process and how nerve wracking it can be. “Every Little Step” is a very entertaining documentary about that very same weeding out process – whittling from thousands, down to the very few special people who were ... Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2011, 7:35 am
We all know Mr. Dylan is a master song writer/singer – he received an honorary Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for his “profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” But did you know that he also paints? You can see some of them at... Comment - Like
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Sep 26, 2011, 12:00 pm
This movie was on broadcast TV over the weekend – couldn’t resist watching – and I noticed all the cuts. Between the commercials and the deleted scenes, a lot of the momentum, and energy was lost. Watch it on DVD for the full experience. The brothers Affleck – Ben directs, and Casey stars ... Comment - Like
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Sep 16, 2011, 2:16 pm
One of my many beliefs is that interesting art is a representation of where we are now. What interests or upsets people now, what do we laugh at or recognize in ourselves? David Byrne’s work as a recording artist, producer and visual artist has always given me unexpected joy. GottaGo is delightfu... Comment - Like
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Sep 12, 2011, 7:39 am
Jazz at Lincoln Center presents Jimmy Heath and Jon Hendricks in concert on Saturday September 24, 2011. These 2 legends are still making great music. “Jazz royalty begins the 2011-12 JALC season with two NEA Jazz Masters, both stylish veterans who are still finding new ways to swing. A triple thr... Comment - Like
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Sep 7, 2011, 8:37 am
OCTOBER 1, 2011–FEBRUARY 12, 2012 at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, an exhibit of 76 works of art by 31 artists (“The truth is, because we do collect right up to the last minute before a show, there are actually 31 artists in “30 Americans.” —Rubell Family, November, 2008″) who m... Comment - Like
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Sep 5, 2011, 2:49 pm
Those colorful, often funny illustrations that accompany Rolling Stone Magazine music reviews that so many of its readers look forward to will be exhibited in NYC until October 22, 2011. “Rolling Stone and the Art of the Record Review,” an exhibition of over 80 original illustrations commissione... Comment - Like
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Aug 31, 2011, 2:28 pm
MoMA, New York City, offers us a retrospective of the work of Holland born artist de Kooning. “Representing nearly every type of work de Kooning made, in both technique and subject matter, this retrospective includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints. Among these are the artist’s ... Comment - Like
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Aug 25, 2011, 3:04 pm
There are actors who are able to lend their body and face to the character they are portraying. Yolande Moreau does just that for me in Séraphine a little gem of a movie about ”Séraphine de Senlis” (Séraphine Louis). Moreau is so compelling that I found myself understanding her many challen... Comment - Like
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Aug 16, 2011, 7:59 am
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts currently presents “Modernist Photography: 1910–1950”. “…this exhibition focuses on the concept that the camera was, in many respects, the ideal tool for modernist artists of the day and that this new camera “vision” resulted in some of the most truly gro... Comment - Like
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