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Tuesday, October 14, 2003
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Friday, October 03, 2003. - More good words
Mother Theresa said that the surest path to humility is through humiliation. Damn - can the woman turn a phrase, or what? That's true.
Learning and 'becoming' through failure and humiliation is like being burned. You don't just shed a new skin - you have to grow an entirely new skin. You are never quite the same, and you have the scars to prove it.
Here are five of the main things that have become part of what I know is true.
1. There is between being "sensitive" and "touchy". Leaders are sensitive - but they aren't touchy.
2. Helping someone move out of an emotional black hole is an important quality of a leader.
3. Moving yourself out of emotional black hole is an essential decision of a good leader.
4. Clarity of vision doesn't come out of pain - it comes out of hope and a decision to make something better for the customer.
5. Learning is what people do when they are challenged.
Talking about what they've learned is what they do to keep their job.
Becoming what they've learned...that is how they succeed in their job.
6. I'm not entitled to a thing - my company owes me nothing. My managers and leaders don't owe me anything. I've been given an opportunity, and everything within that opportunity is something I can affect, choose, and control. Everything in my life is a gift and a choice (OK, six things).
10:28:42 PM 
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http://dianer.blogspot.com/2003_10_12_dianer_archive.html#106602312967598248
This is oooo-ssooooo true about an important skill:
Asking the right question at the right time.
If you ever watch really smart people, they will offer a question as frequently, if not more frequently, than they do a comment.
The most gentlest form of protest is a really good question - if you don't like the way something is moving, the right question will slam the brakes on and cause everyone to pause on the path they are moving down.
Leaders ask the right questions. And they do it in the right tone of voice, and at the right time. They do it in such a way where people are invited to respond.
If you think about it, a good question and silence are often companions of one another.
10:22:09 PM
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Rediscovering Joy & Wonder. from [The Occupational Adventure (sm) Blog] said (among other things)
The whole idea of rediscovering joy and wonder seems to be another facet of a bigger picture trend toward reconnecting with what's really important to us at a core level. It's the same trend that is leading people to look for more from their careers than money, status, and a fat Christmas bonus.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. I have a review next week and what I want most is for them to want to help me be excited about work.
10:13:08 PM
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And something else awesome from [Darrell Norton's Blog].
Very cool tool: Whiteboard Photo. It converts a whiteboard image from your digital camera into a standard image file.
6:01:27 PM
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Lean IT Processes on Agile Business Coach from [Darrell Norton's Blog]
I couldn't agree more with the following:
In my opinion, the real implication is to do as much preassembly as possible while delaying making the software specific to the user as long as possible. This introduces the notion of a coupling point for software, and agile development attempts (though it does state this explicitly) to delay the point until the customer needs it. This creates the demand "pull" from the customer, as opposed to the traditional "push" from the development team.
6:00:16 PM
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WebMethods jumps ship. I'd been wondering how webMethods execs always managed to look and sound so relaxed about the imminent threat of ... [Loosely Coupled weblog]
Lots of good links in this article. Ends with:
Service views may be a new term, but it's one that very accurately describes the services-driven information access capabilities that will soon become a desktop commonplace with the introduction of Microsoft's new XML-aware version of Office. We'll not only be talking about service views a lot, we'll also be looking at them, creating them, often cursing them. Service views are here to stay.
5:51:56 PM
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Lee Iacocca. "Management is nothing more than motivating other people."
Barbra Streisand. "A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it."
10:03:19 AM
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