Risk

"To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out for another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk rejection. To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has…

2015 Resolutions

"Everyone has a plan – until they get punched in the face." — Mike Tyson 2014 in Review Mike Tyson once said, "everyone has a plan — until they get punched in the face." I spent a considerable amount of time in 2014 dusting myself off from the barrage of punches life threw at me in 2013. What I learned in 2014 is a big reason I haven't been able to accomplish a majority of my resolutions over the years is a lack of time. Year after year,…

Please don’t help my kids

Please don’t help my kids

On Letting Children Learn Through Challenges One parent's plea to the other parents at the playground: please don't help my kids. Join the Conversation What's your approach to helping children develop independence? Share your thoughts and experiences on balancing safety with freedom.

Donny Deutsch: often wrong, never in doubt

Donny Deutsch: often wrong, never in doubt

Unleash the Business Rebel Within by Donny Deutsch Source: Amazon.com I'm trying to burn through my stack of library books and wanted to recommend one of my latest reads called Often Wrong, Never in Doubt: Unleash the Business Rebel Within by Donny Deutsch. Every time I go to the library I always bee-line to the Computer Science section first, quickly followed by Business (just like my pursuit of education, both in those fields). I don't think there are a lot of new concepts in the book but the…

Advice on life

Advice on life

In three words I can sum up everything that I learned about life, "It goes on." Life, what a wonderful thing! Copyright © 1999 Rachel Stephens

Bridging generational gaps with social technology

Bridging generational gaps with social technology

CMMA E-Visions Newsletter | Summer 2012 Building connections across Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials Our Social Platform Initiative At work, we are building out an internal social application that combines some of the best features of Quora/Stack Overflow/Yahoo Answers (Q&A), Twitter/Facebook (Microblogging), and Bit.ly (link analytics). The thought process behind building the platform is to provide an online community for employees to connect, learn, and grow. The Push vs. Pull Communication Challenge The interesting thing is while current generations are at work, many still opt to…