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Sweet Spot

by August 27, 2011 » Add the first comment.
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Sweet spots lay in the opportunity to have dialogue with a brilliant academic with a pastor’s heart and a passion to see students engage in learning with their souls. Sweet spots lay in sharing discourse with a woman of God who wants to change her world by reaching out to Read more »

Finding Expression for Differences of Opinion

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I think a lot about the way we speak, express, ‘get off our chest’, our thoughts, dreams, desires, opinions. I think about it a lot especially when working with a team. How we express our shared values creates a wave of fluidity, energized by the common rush we feel when Read more »

Character

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When John Mattone coaches leaders he reminds them of the following:  “Great leaders—truly great leaders possess character. The word, “character” is from a Latin root that means “engraved”. A life, like a block of granite carved upon with care or hacked at with reckless disregard, will at the end, be Read more »

Candoured Dialogue

by August 15, 2011 » Add the first comment.
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“Conversation is….. …..a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don’t just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn’t just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.” Theodore Zeldin When is the Read more »