Category Archives: Creative Sparks

9 Undiluted Thoughts to Start 2009

January 1, 2008 – 3:08 pm

Food for thought…what comes up for you?

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How Do You Want to Be Remembered by Michael Bungay Stanier

August 22, 2007 – 12:13 pm
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Executive Think Time

April 13, 2007 – 4:17 pm

There is another way to view “slowed down moments of self connection" :  as a business tool.  In the book Executive Think Time, master coaches Ellen Fredericks and Val Williams observe that many executives spend less than 20% of their time in strategic thinking.  Kind of shocking!  What is a leader if not someone who [...]

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Where’s Your Butt? & Other Unique Ways to be in the Present Moment

April 12, 2007 – 8:50 pm
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Complaints Are Disappointed Dreams

March 14, 2007 – 12:21 am

Do you have a topic that you can’t help complaining about?  Something that comes up over and over and over again.  A conversation your friends are sick of?  A fight that keeps surfacing with your partner? 
Try this on for size:  A complaint is a disappointed dream.
The next time you have the urge to [...]

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What is 80/20 in Your Life?

February 15, 2007 – 5:08 pm

It can be powerful to use something we know well in one context to create a whole new perspective within another context. Take the ubiquitous "80/20" rule, for instance.  It’s thrown around in business all the time: 80% of revenue from 20% of customers or 80% of the value in a project from 20% of [...]

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