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 Alice-Lyle Hickson | Feb 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Tom knows a lot. He seems to know more about technology, websites, program language and how to make it all work than anyone else I know. His sentences spew an alphabet soup of acronyms. He’s a consummate technologist. Sitting around...
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...
by Ginny Brien | Dec 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
I have been walking around for the past few days smiling at nothing, smiling at everything. Our kitchen now has a sink and running water, and nearly finished floors, and as of this evening walls that are smooth enough for me to paint. And I love the look of how it’s...
