Leaders

I Want to a Start a Movement: It Helps to Know the Turns Ahead

One of my GPS apps gives me multiple choices: the fastest route or the slower one, which avoids tolls. Each app lets me pick which path to take, and I usually will base it on upcoming traffic, when I need to arrive, or…

I Want To Start A Movement: Simon Says “Start With WHY”

I Want to Start a Movement: It Takes a Village

As I started my latest role at KenCrest I was on a committee to shape the 6400 regulations in Pennsylvania. I advocated for a competency model over a specific number of hours or even specific topics; it didn’t work out. So here I am now taking…

I Want To Continue a Movement: Remember Why We Started

Sometimes you get caught up in what you are doing, and you forget why. Those moments can happen over little issues like you were just “too busy.” The other day I was trying to cross things off my to-do list and I went down into the…

I Want To Start a Movement: Make It a Great Day

The other week I blogged about using everyday language to define client outcomes. What about the everyday language that defines your outcomes? How are you achieving success?

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: 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…

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…