I Want To Start a Movement: To Measure You Must Embrace the Inspector

In the book, Turn the Ship Around, David Marquet talks about embracing the inspector role. In the Navy, they measure readiness, and hope that nothing bad will happen; but if it does, they want to be fully…

I Want To Start A Movement: Translation Please!

A few weeks ago I did my April required annual training in Relias. I was most impressed by one term― self-determination, and the example given was very practical. The story describes a young woman with a legal guardian; she wanted to select her…

I Want to Start a Movement: Measurement Matters

I Want To Start a Movement: In Language There Can Be Peace

I took a class many years ago at the Philadelphia Friends Meeting Friends; it was three days long, and absolutely the hardest class of my life! Despite this, it was also one of my top five learning experiences. The subject was…

I Want to Start a Movement: Let’s Measure Love

In 1967 the Beatles said “Love is all you need,” and if that wasn’t enough…

I Want to Start a Movement: Measuring What Matters is Not Easy

I Want To Start a Movement: Inspire Growth

Recently I connected with members of our Early Learning and Training teams, and…

rI Want To Start a Movement: You Can Only Move Forward If You Understand

I had the opportunity to walk around Boston as my husband rested before running the Boston Marathon. I often compare Boston to Philadelphia because so many of the revolutionary-era stories in history took…

I Want To Start A Movement: Prepare For Tomorrow

Over the last couple months I’ve gotten to spend some time at the West Center while staff did their antigen tests. In the course of one afternoon during testing, Magda Moncrief introduced me to Encanto, the Disney animated movie which won an…

I Want To Start a Movement: Learn From Experience

While we are on the subject of Benjamin Franklin, I learned something which provides advice on another subject — vaccination! Benjamin fathered two children, a son Francis and daughter Sarah. Francis died at the age of 4 from small pox. Here is…

I Want To Start a Movement: The Time Is Now

Patience and flexibility were not one of my original virtues. As a teenager my grandmother was stunned by my unwillingness to move on one issue or another, and my dad shared in her astonishment. If I saw some injustice, I had no reason to see why it…