by Jane Smith | Jun 10, 2022 | Gratitude
The big event, the biggest one since Phil’s stroke happened – Phil’s granddaughter, his first blood granddaughter, got married on Saturday at Carolina Grove, between Durham and Hillsborough. Really between, like woods and farms between, a rural setting. ...
by Jane Smith | Nov 24, 2021 | Innovation, Leadership
The hockey world has been shaken by a scandal that dates back to 2010. A young Canadian, drafted at age 16 by the Chicago Blackhawks hockey club, sued this past May as John Doe for a prolonged sexual assault by the Hawks’ video coach. He recently went public, after...
by Jane Smith | Mar 14, 2018 | Innovation
I am in the research and gathering information process for several home projects. There are some things I wish I could do – take up the carpet in the living room and bedroom and replace it with hardwoods that would match the wood that is already in parts of the...
by Jane Smith | Jan 10, 2018 | Innovation
Declarations come from nothing, from a future that hasn’t happened yet, It’s a future that doesn’t exist until there is someone to say it. The declaration is the source of what’s next and inspires the actions to be taken that match it. At Thanksgiving, I declared to...
by Jane Smith | Nov 28, 2017 | Innovation
Leaders often confuse optimism with creating. The other day, a client asked me, “What’s the difference between the two? People tell me I am an optimist.” I said something like this: Optimism is a state of mind, a way of being that some people may regard with...
