Category Archives: All Life Lenses
The biggest threat to your creativity (a la Danielle LaPorte)
I love this post from my good friend Danielle LaPorte. So much that I’ve reposted it below. It’s a great example of how your perspective can be refreshed, enhanced & rebooted through knowing & telling your own story. The biggest … Continue reading
X marks the spot, or does it? Turns out Spanish tongues play a role
If high school algebra sent you into convulsions, hang on, this story has a happy ending. Terry Moore explains why the letter x means the unknown in math equations, in his TED talk (see below for the video). If you’ve … Continue reading
A TED speaker’s worst nightmare – an opportunity or a chance to get real & laugh
What’s your worst nightmare if you’re up in front of people speaking? technical gadgets not working (no sound &/or no powerpoint)? forget what you’re going to say? getting heckled by an audience member? something else unexpected happening? What happens when … Continue reading
Value is defined by the user (a la Dave Ulrich)
I adore this picture, another from Dave Ulrich’s excellent presentation ‘Leadership and Human Resources: Trends for the future’ at the 2012 Regional Leadership and HR Convention, Institute of Human Resource Management, Nairobi in May 2012. What do you see? A … Continue reading
Which way does your watch hand point? For a novel perspective on time, how about uphill
My good friend & colleague Melanda Schmid sent me a fascinating article about how time, for a tribe from Papua New Guinea, flows uphill. Yes, that’s uphill. Once thought to be universal, this “embodied cognition of time” is in fact … Continue reading
Laying it bare – monthly round up of June Life Lenses™ blog posts
We’re laying it bare. Stripping it down. Peeling back perspective. In this monthly round up you’ll find the Life Lenses™ blog posts laid bare for the month of June. Get bare, dive in deep and take a full look around … Continue reading
Was his (now mine) a la Dave Ulrich
This picture, from Dave Ulrich’s excellent presentation ‘Leadership and Human Resources: Trends for the future’ at the 2012 Regional Leadership and HR Convention, Institute of Human Resource Management, Nairobi in May 2012, besides making you wince if you’re the one … Continue reading
Advice from a tree
If you’re a regular reader, you know this blog is all about perspective. How what we see depends on what we look for. How what we think & feel depends on our priorities, on what makes it through our lens … Continue reading
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Telling shiny objects apart from true illumination
The amount of information available to us (both on & offline) is growing more than 65% each year. Astonishing? Yes. Depressing? Maybe. Overwhelming. Could be. In an IDC survey sponsored by Xerox, respondents said they spent up to 26% of … Continue reading
Fishbowl toilets- now that’s creative
If these fishbowl toilets aren’t an attention grabber I don’t know what is. There are a variety of ways to see these tanks, from an environmental lens to a sociological one: Designed for Chinese families where space is at a … Continue reading