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Fork in the Road

Life is a Fork in the Road by Don Shapiro

December 27, 2009 · 1 comment

in Resources

A friend of mine has recently launched a blog with an interesting purpose. Don Shapiro (LinkedIn Profile, @DonShapiro1) came up with an idea to pursue the decisions people make with a blog called Life Is A Fork In The Road.  The premise is that our life is made up of several, maybe even hundreds of choices.

A fork is one of tpathhose decisions that becomes a significant event.  Don is examining how people choose which fork to take.  His desire is to collect stories and see if there are any patterns.  His end goal is a book on the topic that is based on the stories.

Every choice eliminates other choices, many forever.  I can think of several significant forks myself, and many things that would have never been possible had I not taken the fork.  If you’re like me, and you tend to think back and plan forward at the end of the year, take a minute and invest in an interesting work.  Please hop over to Life Is A Fork and share a story or two.  I’ll be doing that in a few days myself.  It will be interesting to see how Don’s pursuit of his particular fork ends up.

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Who Do You Love?

June 8, 2009 · 4 comments

in Leadership Development

It seemed as I was graduating from college in the early 1980’s, prevailing business thought revolved around a passion for the customer. Business writing seemed to be dominated by the power of the customer at least from a marketing perspective. Customers selected the style of car and the flavor of food. Customers were front-and-center of marketing thought and business motivation.

Beginning in the mid 1980’s, coinciding with a general acceleration in technology, the focus started to change. Technology brought about the idea that businesses created value with their hope and that was reflected in the stock value. Shares of stock and shareholders became the central focus of business motivation. Every business wanted to create value for their shareholders. In the interest of shareholder value we experienced the travesty of Enron and WorldCom and we’re seeing the current stock market bust. Many have prospered from the stock market run-up that ended in October of 2008. Fortunes were made, until recently. [click to continue…]

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Leadership: Focus On Your Team

May 19, 2009

It seems more and more I read where people are speaking about their limitations in the workplace.  The economic downturn has caused us to cut back, hunker down, retrench, re-evaluate, re-strategize and review just about everything.  But there are several things we can do to influence our situations.  As John Maxwell has so aptly said, [...]

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