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| Photo Credit: Richard Chicoine iCopyright 2011 Leadership "Flow" I invite you to look forward to feeling uncomfortable as you delve into your leadership journey in, perhaps, a new and unfamiliar way. I invite you to orchestrate your own happiness, and let go of some familiar fears, frustrations and stress. I invite you to ask for feedback on your VIA Character Strengths. I invite you to replace judgment of yourself and others with questions. Get into "flow"..... Who is the "authentic" you? What is your "Why"? How does your "Why" work in the world around you? TO DO: TA DAH! Send your questions for the HOT SEAT round to us this week. I will post on next week's blog, so you'll have a "heads up" for what might be in store. If you need to chat, or go for coffee to discuss where you're at, just let me know. Best.... happy searching, Maggie |
14.5.11
The Final Question(s)
9.5.11
Passion? What rhymes with passion?
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| Photo Credit: Richard Chicoine iCopyright 2011 3 Veils Waterfalls "Power + Influence + Passion" Extraordinary Leadership's PASSION Let me introduce you to the most passionate poet of the Century - Kirk Nugent. He's got a cool, dynamic perspective on what it takes to get the most out of your life, including a little chunk on what's happening in the cemetary. Take a look - and if you have time, a second (deeper) review. Which lines really speak to you? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb-Iweijt1s&feature=related (Kirk Nugent "Pursue Your Passion" with text) "Education is a wonderful thing, provided you always remember that nothing worth knowing can ever be taught."- Oscar Wilde |
26.4.11
A simple question
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| Photo Credit: Richard Chicoine iCopyright 2011 A simple question for you: What If... You begin every day with YES? One person's interpretation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwjzmFNIWEQ&feature=related |
19.4.11
Is A Happy Leader A Better Leader?
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| Photo Credit: Richard Chicoine iCopyright 2011 Happy You? Happy Them? There's a fundamental principle here: What is "real" happiness? How is that inner joy, joie de vivre connected to your leadership? Let's start with an excerpt of the Flip Side by author Sharon Saltzberg. (with thanks to Sandra Schrift) Spiritual teacher, Sharon Salzberg, reminds us that The Five Hindrances are obstacles that arise in our meditation practice—and in our lives—that throw us into confusion. They are: Desire, Aversion, Laziness, Restlessness, and Doubt. Each of them has its own way of knocking us off the path of practice, and yet, dealing with the Hindrances is our practice. If we had no negative emotional states to confront, we wouldn't be on the spiritual path at all! “ Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the unique happiness that is our birthright.” To hear Sharon Saltzberg chat about "REAL" Happiness, go to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/16/sharon-salzberg-real-happiness_n_824042.html To read her views on "RESILIENCE", click on http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sharon-salzberg/sorrow-resilience-human-spirit_b_810425.html Happiness is an "asset" of yours. Is a happy leader a better leader? What do you think? ps: remember to complete the VIA Strengths survey & send me a copy of your results. Best! Maggie |
12.4.11
Feeling Good!!!
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| Photo Credit: Richard Chicoine iCopyright 2011 Are You At Your BEST? |
Have you thought about your best level of performance as a leader?
When does it happen for you? How mentally tough are you?
"When you feel good...you perform well."
To be "mentally tough"
- courageously moving forward -
means that you have the ability to create and maintain
positive internal feelings
regardless of the circumstances.
Which comes first -
the positive feelings
or the
outstanding performance?
If you think "feeling good" is a result of doing well,
you've got it backwards.
Thanks to the configuration of the human nervous system,
the
emotions
have to be
in place
first.
Outstand Performance: Feelings
- Mental Calmness
- Physical Relaxation
- Freedom from Anxiety
- Energy (as in what athletes call "pumped up, revved" - energy without tension
- Optimism
- EnJOYment
- Effortlessness
- Automaticity
- Alertness
- Focus
- Self-confidence
- Control
Emotional control can give you the stamina
to practice
and the
staying power for achieving your goals,
along with the
ATTITUDES
required for performing at the upper levels of your abilities.
At our learning day on Thursday,
think about these emotional elements while interacting with our guest speakers
- one who is well into his senior years and
who keeps performing at higher and higher levels (effortlessly, it seems)!
He will challenge you to do the same...
Learning Cafe, @ 8:30 for coffee!
(PS: we had a great time in St Lucia! Relaxed, ready to roll...)
4.4.11
Gladwell Inspired Guest Blog by Kimberly Nott
Deborah Rhodes – a leader in breast cancer research and her Michael Gladwell moment!
While browsing Talks on “riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world”, I came across a Talk about a tool that finds three times more breast tumours.
Deborah Rhodes is an expert at managing breast-cancer risk. She is the director of the Mayo Clinic's Executive Health Program and is currently testing a gamma camera that can see tumours that get missed due to dense breasts. Traditional mammography still cannot detect the early onset of breast cancer in as many as 1 of every 4 women ages 40-49 and women with dense breast tissue are 4 to 6 times more likely to develop cancer than others.
Rhodes had her light bulb moment while reading an article that Malcolm Gladwell wrote in the New Yorker on innovation. Gladwell made the case that scientific discoveries are rarely the product of one individual's genius.
Rather, big ideas can be orchestrated, if you can simply gather people with different perspectives in a room and get them to talk about things they don't ordinarily talk about.
This statement from Rhodes encompassed everything we are learning in Leadership Thunder Bay and what I witness and feel every time I am engrossed by a TED Talk.
Originally I was drawn to this video because breast cancer does run in my family (of course I was chocked up at the end), but this video is much more than just the right minds getting together at the right time.
It really hit home for me because not only are we learning that it takes a team, community, and/or group of people to enable leaders to be at their fullest potential but we are also reading Blink by Malcolm Gladwell and realizing that the mind is a powerful entity influenced by intuition and stereotypes.
I hope that we can all find the passion that Rhodes exhibits. The more and more I am exposed to these amazing leaders around the world and in our backyard the more I search for my reason for being and what I WILL do to change my life and maybe someone else’s for the better.
The history of science is full of ideas that several people had at the same time.
While at a conference Rhodes was introduced to a nuclear physicist, Micheal O'Connor, who was a specialist in cardiac imaging. He was telling Rhodes about a new type of gamma detector. The traditional machine is huge with bulky tubes and Rhodes had thought in her early years of using this type of detector for breast cancer because breast density doesn't influence the results of the test, but it just couldn't get close enough around the breasts. The new gamma detector O'Connor mentioned was made of a thin layer of a semiconductor material that served as the gamma detector. Rhodes and O'Connor discussed the issue of breast density and they quickly realized that this new technology could be easily manipulated to get close enough around the breast to actually find small tumours. Rhodes indicated that after putting together a grid of these cubes with duct tape, hacking off the X-ray plate of a mammography machine that was about to be thrown out they attached the new detector, and decided to call this machine Molecular Breast Imaging, or MBI.
Rhodes collaborated with a nuclear physicist, an internist, a biomedical engineer, and two radiologists, who were trying to take on the entrenched world of mammography with a machine that was held together by duct tape. They faced high doses of scepticism in those early years but they were so convinced that they might be able to make this work that they chipped away with incremental modifications to this system. The duct tape is now gone and they added a second detector on top of the breast, which has further improved the tumour detection.
"MBI detects three times as many breast tumors as mammography in high-risk women. Although it would not replace mammograms, it might become an additional tool for screening, especially in higher risk women with a dense tissue that makes tumors hard to spot. " CTV News, Sept. 4, 2008
The MBI unit has now been FDA approved, but sadly it's not yet widely available.
For the full TED Talk please visit http://www.ted.com/talks/deborah_rhodes.html.
While browsing Talks on “riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world”, I came across a Talk about a tool that finds three times more breast tumours.
Deborah Rhodes is an expert at managing breast-cancer risk. She is the director of the Mayo Clinic's Executive Health Program and is currently testing a gamma camera that can see tumours that get missed due to dense breasts. Traditional mammography still cannot detect the early onset of breast cancer in as many as 1 of every 4 women ages 40-49 and women with dense breast tissue are 4 to 6 times more likely to develop cancer than others.
Rhodes had her light bulb moment while reading an article that Malcolm Gladwell wrote in the New Yorker on innovation. Gladwell made the case that scientific discoveries are rarely the product of one individual's genius.
Rather, big ideas can be orchestrated, if you can simply gather people with different perspectives in a room and get them to talk about things they don't ordinarily talk about.
This statement from Rhodes encompassed everything we are learning in Leadership Thunder Bay and what I witness and feel every time I am engrossed by a TED Talk.
Originally I was drawn to this video because breast cancer does run in my family (of course I was chocked up at the end), but this video is much more than just the right minds getting together at the right time.
It really hit home for me because not only are we learning that it takes a team, community, and/or group of people to enable leaders to be at their fullest potential but we are also reading Blink by Malcolm Gladwell and realizing that the mind is a powerful entity influenced by intuition and stereotypes.
I hope that we can all find the passion that Rhodes exhibits. The more and more I am exposed to these amazing leaders around the world and in our backyard the more I search for my reason for being and what I WILL do to change my life and maybe someone else’s for the better.
The history of science is full of ideas that several people had at the same time.
While at a conference Rhodes was introduced to a nuclear physicist, Micheal O'Connor, who was a specialist in cardiac imaging. He was telling Rhodes about a new type of gamma detector. The traditional machine is huge with bulky tubes and Rhodes had thought in her early years of using this type of detector for breast cancer because breast density doesn't influence the results of the test, but it just couldn't get close enough around the breasts. The new gamma detector O'Connor mentioned was made of a thin layer of a semiconductor material that served as the gamma detector. Rhodes and O'Connor discussed the issue of breast density and they quickly realized that this new technology could be easily manipulated to get close enough around the breast to actually find small tumours. Rhodes indicated that after putting together a grid of these cubes with duct tape, hacking off the X-ray plate of a mammography machine that was about to be thrown out they attached the new detector, and decided to call this machine Molecular Breast Imaging, or MBI.
Rhodes collaborated with a nuclear physicist, an internist, a biomedical engineer, and two radiologists, who were trying to take on the entrenched world of mammography with a machine that was held together by duct tape. They faced high doses of scepticism in those early years but they were so convinced that they might be able to make this work that they chipped away with incremental modifications to this system. The duct tape is now gone and they added a second detector on top of the breast, which has further improved the tumour detection.
"MBI detects three times as many breast tumors as mammography in high-risk women. Although it would not replace mammograms, it might become an additional tool for screening, especially in higher risk women with a dense tissue that makes tumors hard to spot. " CTV News, Sept. 4, 2008
The MBI unit has now been FDA approved, but sadly it's not yet widely available.
For the full TED Talk please visit http://www.ted.com/talks/deborah_rhodes.html.
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