Posted in choices, creative, creative process, creativity, decision-making, design on November 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today I had lunch with General Counsel of the company I work for. I asked her how she fostered creativity among her team and she told an interesting anecdote. One of her teams manages a very large portfolio of patents, and while valuable they are very expensive to obtain and maintain. She challenged her team [...]
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Posted in choices, decision-making, design, goals, imagination, inspiration on November 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been doing a lot of think about small bets and goals, and the enormous benefits that can be gained by an individual and an entire community. Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and one of my social entrepreneurship idols, is famous for saying that he didn’t set out to [...]
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Posted in Christmas, holiday on November 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” ~ Roald Dahl via the very cool art blog http://prettygoodforagirl.blogspot.com/ This always feels like a magical time of year, when anything [...]
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Posted in generosity, leadership on November 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.” ~ Harvey S. Firestone “The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.” ~ Sue Monk Kidd I’ve been thinking a lot about leadership recently, and its elusive, mutable nature. I believe that the very best leadership is rooted in a [...]
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Posted in choices, decision-making, goals, love on November 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“We can do no great things, only small things with great love.” ~ Mother Teresa There is a desire in our culture to make everything big, to have all experiences be life altering. We want the very best of everything, always. We are not by nature happy with incremental change and improvement. We are a [...]
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Posted in holiday, simplicity, thankful, thanksgiving on November 25, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. Good food and lots of downtime with no pressure of gifts or any schedule. There’s a parade with colorful floats, followed by hours of sporting events and a nap or two, and the knowledge that the next month is about having as much fun as possible. This morning [...]
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Posted in frustration, nature, strengths, stress on November 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“A vine, well-exercised, produces an intense wine.” ~ Anthony Bourdain Yesterday I was at my mom’s house watching an episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. I recently finished his book, Kitchen Confidential, and love his bits of life wisdom garnered through his life in food. On yesterday’s episode he was meandering through Provence and all [...]
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Posted in books, career, change on November 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I recently met someone who thinks about his career in decades. He got a PhD and spent 10 years as a particle physicist, is now about 5 years into his decade in finance, and believes his next decade of work will involve green energy. I was really struck by this framework for a career. He [...]
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Posted in art, blog, creativity, imagination on November 22, 2010 | 4 Comments »
When I moved into my apartment over a year ago, I had nothing but a borrowed air mattress from a friend and a handful of clothes. My apartment building fire in my former apartment building ruined most of my belongings and the few that were salvageable were sent away for a special cleaning to remove [...]
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Posted in grateful, gratitude, routine, vacation on November 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I will be the first person to tell anyone why I think New York City is the greatest place on Earth for me. There are so many other cities in the world that I love, but none that feel so like home to me as New York. It is a city that has literally every [...]
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