Empathy

P.E. Empowerment

October 18, 2010

One of my highlights this past month has been seeing my daughter make the transition into Kindergarten.  It’s fun seeing her development more of a world of her own and continue learning and developing.  But one of my highlights has related to her development – but not in the typical kindergarten curriculum.If you didn’t know [...]

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Words, Semantics, and Empathy

February 4, 2010

I wanted to follow up one of my last posts to provide some explanation for something that on the face would have been hard to understand and appreciate.  And if you stop by this blog from time to time, I’ll reference Friedman and his thoughts and this is a good distinction to make if you’re [...]

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The Great Exposure

February 19, 2008

Last week I was thinking a lot about cheating. There have been three very significant sports cheating scandals in the news. Roger Clemens testifying at Capitol Hill made the biggest news, the commissioner of the NFL was meeting with Senator Arlen Spector regarding the Patriots’ video taping scandal, and the Indiana basketball coach was busted [...]

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Leadership&Perspective Taking

July 16, 2007

In this second post from Tim Muehlhoff’s message to the leadership track, I want to highlight a couple of the concepts Tim emphasized regarding listening and bridging for understanding, especially with differences or conflict is at work. He stressed the need for “perspective-taking” which means seeing the world from another point of view. We can’t [...]

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