This is truly and inspi­ra­tional clip. If you ever feel like you can’t carry on, or just need a kick up the back-side, take seven min­utes to watch this, and dig a lit­tle deeper…

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Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action

August 31, 2010

Simon Sinek has a sim­ple but pow­er­ful model for inspi­ra­tional lead­er­ship all start­ing with a golden cir­cle and the ques­tion “Why?” His exam­ples include Apple, Mar­tin Luther King, and the Wright broth­ers — and as a coun­ter­point Tivo, which (until a recent court vic­tory that tripled its stock price) appeared to be strug­gling. In 2009, […]

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DO!">Aspire, Dream, Be Free and DO!

August 25, 2010

This is a well crafted short video that is an inspi­ra­tional call to action. While you’re not expected to fol­low the same dream, you would be hard pressed to watch this and not feel the urge to do SOMETHING… Watch, and tell us what you think…

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The Power of Ignorance

August 23, 2010

If des­per­a­tion is the mother of inno­va­tion, then igno­rance might be its father. In the early stages of a com­pany, being pro­tected from exter­nal influ­ences can be a pow­er­ful stim­u­lant for cre­ativ­ity and inno­va­tion. Why? For the same rea­son that we often see some of the most cre­ative and entre­pre­neur­ial insights com­ing from younger people. […]

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Prevent Taking a Bad Day Home with this Simple Step

August 20, 2010

Feel­ing frus­trated at work, espe­cially late in the day? Most of us feel this way from time to time. The chal­lenge is what to do about it. Do what com­pet­i­tive divers do: get up on the div­ing board and exe­cute a dive in which you excel. Then call it quits for the day. John Bal­doni brings us […]

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40 Inspirational Moments in Two Minutes…

August 18, 2010

This is cer­tainly not a con­clu­sive list, but it has been put together very well and car­ries a great mes­sage… Now I just need to find out all the dif­fer­ent titles.

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It Makes Us Stronger…

August 16, 2010

Your child has brain dam­age” is on the list of things you never want to hear, but in June of 2007 those were the exact words I heard just one day after my son was born. A few min­utes later they told me that he would prob­a­bly not live, but if he did, he would […]

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SORRY IS JUST A WORD.… an apology is a whole experience">SORRY IS JUST A WORD.… an apology is a whole experience

August 13, 2010

I would like to intro­duce you to Yvonne Ing­ley; a lovely, wise woman I have been for­tu­nate enough to hear speak on sev­eral occa­sions. The last time she gave a pre­sen­ta­tion enti­tled: SORRY IS JUST A WORD.… an apol­ogy is a whole expe­ri­ence and she was kind enough to write it up as an article […]

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AMAZING technique to improve Empathic Listening">AMAZING technique to improve Empathic Listening

August 11, 2010

This is a very sim­ple, but effec­tive idea put for­ward superbly by Dr. Stephen R. Covey. I can’t say that I’m always able to pull it off effec­tively, but then you can never be on tar­get if you don’t  have some­thing to aim for… Take three min­utes and see what you think, let us know via […]

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Cities see growth in small, home-based businesses

August 9, 2010

As they have in the past when the econ­omy has gone south, small and home-based busi­nesses are becom­ing more pop­u­lar — and cities are try­ing to help them pros­per. Based on the num­ber of licenses it’s already issued to home-based busi­nesses since Jan­u­ary, Anti­och is pro­ject­ing a nearly 37 per­cent increase in these micro enterprises […]

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