Whenever anyone asks me, “Can I give you some feedback?”, my stomach churns. Whose doesn’t? I think this question came from a feedback training class in the 80s. It should have stayed in the 80s, like big hair did. Though it’s supposed to communicate the desire to be helpful, we all know it usually means…
What Michelangelo Taught Me About Learning & Development
I visited Florence, Italy this past September. Seeing the unfinished statues by Michelangelo was one of the highlights. He called them “Prisoners” because they were unfinished, unrealized. Some people think that Michelangelo deliberately left them incomplete to represent the eternal struggle of human beings to free themselves as they discover more about themselves and who…
Nobody Is That Busy
Ask anyone running through the halls of a high-tech company how they’re doing. The informal poll I did on a random Wednesday resulted in 99.9% answering “Crazy busy,” or some version of that. When I dug deeper and asked what was causing people to be so “crazy busy,” they offered the typical responses: back-to-back meetings,…
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~DAVID WHYTE
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