Ramblings From a Glass Half Full
What do Aston Kutcher and Fonzie have in common? They both jumped a shark. Fonzie did it on “Happy Days”, and then we all knew the end was near for that long running TV series. Aston’s “shark” was 1 Million Twitter followers. He jumped it, alright, with plenty of room to spare. Even dragged a major news network with …
Yesterday I came across an article in the New York Times written by Kirk Johnson about a non-profit organization called “Rachel’s Challenge”. Rachel Scott’s life was tragically cut short 10 years ago tomorrow at Columbine High School, but she left something very special behind. It was an essay she wrote a month before her death entitled “My …
Steve Farber is quite the dreamer when it comes to defining great leadership. What I’ve always admired about him was his willingness to aim high – like for example, in his book “The Radical Edge”, where he dared to believe that we could mix great business with personal joy and in the process, “change the world”. It’s …
I had an interesting exchange on Twitter last week, where I was referred to as a “non-stop” evangelizer. That one made me run to the dictionary, because I wasn’t used to “evangelize” being used pejoratively. Aside from its religious connotation, an evangelist is “an enthusiastic advocate”. Someone promoting a cause, or a person, or a concept – or …
“It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who …
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