by Gary Davis | Jul 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
Have you begun today what you want to be tomorrow? Anonymous 490 days ago, Dorrier Underwood consultant Gary Davis spoke a commitment out loud that most of us wouldn’t have even entertained getting out of our mouths. He didn’t have it all planned out or even know if...
by Laura Neff | May 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
I started meditating again a few weeks ago, on a Monday. Just five minutes each morning, as a start, and now I’m up to 10. I’m beginning again at meditation because I don’t see how I can say I’m firmly on the path of being a calm, steady presence of a leader without...
by Doug McVadon | Mar 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
At Dorrier Underwood, our whole staff is studying A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix by Edwin Friedman. Each of us is writing what we are seeing and sharing those writings to bolster one another’s learning. This is one of those essays, by...
by Gary Davis | Mar 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
There is no success or failure, just what works and what doesn’t work. Werner Erhard For me, that is almost not gettable. I know I have success and failure–just ask me, or ask my reaction. When the big deal comes through or falls through, when the client says...
by Virginia Brien | Feb 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Light shines on the keyboard, stroking each key with a bar of white, faint in comparison to the letters and symbols printed on the small, black squares. Writing gives me a chance to be alone with my thoughts, and in the process, discover hidden gifts mixed in the...
by Laura Neff | Jan 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
The most joy-full moment of my day (so far) depended on staying up until 12:30 last night, a big, 17-year old, beat-up cooler that I can still rely on to keep food cold for lengthy periods of time, and outstretched arms attached to bodies with smiling faces, glad and...
