Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
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Healthy relationships are important to our well-being. As a member of a mastermind group with some Sisterfriends at my church, we recently shared a wonderful evening together laughing, talking and basking in each other’s radiance. It’s nothing like having friends to share life’s moments. I felt so ...
Posted in Attitude, Laughter, Thinking | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
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I thought writing blog posts in parts would be easier. This has not been the case for me. Mainly because I have so many ideas and experiences that occur that I find myself always wanting to write about something else rather than what I promised my readers. Perhaps ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
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While in graduate school at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis, I took a class on leadership. One of the books on the reading list was Leadership on the Line, Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading by Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty ...
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
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Yesterday, I attended my first Atlanta Braves baseball game, courtesy of the Georgia Center for Nonprofits and the Atlanta Nonprofit Professionals (ANP) group. The networking that took place before the game provided ample opportunity to meet and mingle with outstanding professionals in the field.
I met Jamie ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
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A couple of week s ago, I walked into the Foundation Center-Atlanta and saw two of my colleagues hovering over the credit card machine, inspecting it as if it were from outer space. As far as they were concerned, it was from outer space since they had ...
Posted in Choice, Leadership, Thinking | 1 Comment »
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