Archive for June, 2004

Friday, June 18th, 2004

How To Lose Friends and Infuriate People

 
How To Lose Friends and Infuriate People in the Regent Business Review.
examples:
#1 When an employee is in your office to talk with you, don’t hesitate to answer your phone.
#6 Pay people less than they’re worth. Give raises based on factors they cannot influence or, for more fun, based on their performance relative to one another.
#13 [...]

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Thursday, June 17th, 2004

To Be ALIVE

 
I met up with my friend Jim Cohen last night whom I hadn’t seen in six months and he asked me how I was doing and what I was up to and I responded - ALIVE. To which he sent me this poem by Dickinson which pretty much sums it up. Gotta [...]

No Comments » - Posted in New Finds, Poems by Matthew

Tuesday, June 15th, 2004

Radical Leap Book Review

The Radical Leap, was just that for me. Though I’ve called myself a leadership coach and have been in leadership positions since I was 10 years old. I didn’t really awaken to what it really means to be a leader until I read this book.
 “A pro does as well as he can within [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Coaching, Concepts, Leadership, MCA, Musings, Readings, Recommend, Uncategorized by Matthew Rochte

Tuesday, June 8th, 2004

Kitty in www.morguefile.com

 
No, the kitty is not dead. Morguefile, refers to photographs that were taken for another purpose say for a news article that weren’t used for an article.
Isn’t this the sweetest thing!
 
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No Comments » - Posted in LiveToExplore, Resources by Matthew

Tuesday, June 8th, 2004

Webphoto journeys

 
The web is an amazing journey sometimes. While researching a restaurant I ran across this hometown mecca of resources which also listed blogs so I randomly clicked on one which propelled me to a whole new world.
the mecca: Cursor.com - Twin City Media Portalthe blog: City of Squirrels - I couldn’t resistthe new world: [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Links, LiveToExplore, New Finds by Matthew

Monday, June 7th, 2004

Make Way For Ducklings

 
After 21 days of rain in May I was beginning to think someone had moved me back to Tacoma without telling me. I discovered something this morning that the rain had concealed from me. The sun, my trusty celestal wake up alarm, has been rising a lot earlier these days. Lo [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Musings, Nature, Spirituality by Matthew

Thursday, June 3rd, 2004

Ladybug Picnic

 
One Two ThreeFour Five SixLadybugs came to the ladybug picnic
On my joyful jaunt around "my" lake today I ran across a ladybug picnic. A gaggle of women who had awakened probably before the crack of dawn (which is 5:30 these days) to have a coffee/breakfast social on a pier on "our" lake. [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Musings, Nature, New Finds by Matthew