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Just Plain Funny #1

May 15, 2012 By David Griesing 1 Comment

This is the first in an occasional series of stories that bring a smile to my face (even in the re-telling), and may do the same for you. As many of you already know, I’m in the throws of my daughter’s-graduation-from-college-week in New York … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Using Humor Effectively Tagged With: Barack Obama, humor, leadership, women leaders

Base of Operations

May 11, 2012 By David Griesing 2 Comments

Thinking differently about your work means thinking about different kinds of work. We all know what we’ll to be doing today. But where are the people passing us on the street going to work, and what will they be doing when they get there? … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Building Your Values into Your Work, Daily Preparation Tagged With: alive, base of operations, change yourself, foundation, make a difference, potent, rootless, thinking differently about your work. transformation

Open the Door

April 30, 2012 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Discovery results—as often as not—from our ability to combine the familiar with the unexpected into a new way of doing things. It’s as true about the challenges we face at work, as it is about figuring out what kind of work we should be doing in the … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Daily Preparation Tagged With: change yourself, innovation, insight, productive work, social benefits, Thinking differently about your work

I am a Work in Progress

April 22, 2012 By David Griesing 2 Comments

How you introduce yourself has everything to do with how you see yourself. I am a writer. A speaker. A company starter and a dispute resolver.  But that’s not all that I am. How others see me, and even more importantly, how I see myself, is … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Introducing Yourself & Your Work Tagged With: becoming, influence, influential, personal branding, self-definition, stuck in place, utilizing all your capabilities, visualize, wasting your talents

I am (not) my job

April 14, 2012 By David Griesing 2 Comments

We’ve all had the feeling in the pit of our stomachs. Somebody asks you “What do you do?” They seem to think they’ll learn a lot about you by asking, but you’d rather they never had. Maybe your job needs too much defending or explaining. Or you’d … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Introducing Yourself & Your Work Tagged With: becoming, centered, grounded, job change, job loss, more than a living, personal branding, self worth, self-definition, visualize

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