Please give me feedback! This is an idea I’m interested in understanding more deeply. Let me know if my take on it is crazy or not. Thanks!
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me
Maya Angelou’s wonderful poem about courage. It was written for children and I still love it today!
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me
Shadows on the wall
Noises down the hall
Life doesn’t frighten me at all
Bad dogs barking loud
Big ghosts in a cloud
Life doesn’t frighten me at all
Mean old Mother Goose
Lions on the loose
They don’t frighten me at all
Dragons breathing flame
On my counterpane
That doesn’t frighten me at all.
I go boo
Make them shoo
I make fun
Way they run
I won’t cry
So they fly
I just smile
They go wild
Life doesn’t frighten me at all.
Tough guys fight
All alone at night
Life doesn’t frighten me at all.
Panthers in the park
Strangers in the dark
No, they don’t frighten me at all.
That new classroom where
Boys all pull my hair
(Kissy little girls
With their hair in curls)
They don’t frighten me at all.
Don’t show me frogs and snakes
And listen for my scream,
If I’m afraid at all
It’s only in my dreams.
I’ve got a magic charm
That I keep up my sleeve
I can walk the ocean floor
And never have to breathe.
Life doesn’t frighten me at all
Not at all
Not at all.
Life doesn’t frighten me at all.
– Maya Angelou
Bias & Decision Making
We all have bias…it is how our brain is wired. Once you accept this, the next step is to become conscious about your biases. Then you can examine them and assess if they are helping or getting in the way of what you intend to accomplish. A nice short video interview with Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Laureate, as he describes common decision making errors – i.e., unchecked bias!
http://www.inc.com/daniel-kahneman/idea-lab-thinking-fast-and-slow.html
The Rise of Executive Feminism
The Rise of Executive Feminism
Williams and Dempsey propose we are “in the midst of a powerful new feminist movement…and the backlash has already begun”. Are we on a new frontier of feminism?
Over the last two years I’ve asked myself and the executives I work with: What is needed to create environments where all people feel included and valued?
Take a look at Williams’ and Dempsey’s blog…what do you think?
The Scarecrow
A lovely example of great storytelling. I am also glad to learn that this company is not owned by McDonalds. When they first opened a friend cautioned me “don’t eat there, it is owned by them”. Alas, he was misinformed.
Chorus, from the Cure of Troy, by Seamus Heaney
rest in peace great poet
Cowgirl Courage
I appreciate this post by Sandy Schwan: “My southern roots produce my visceral reaction to the quote attributed to John Wayne, courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.”
via Cowgirl Courage.
Courage
You only have to be courageous for twenty seconds.
Stop. Notice. Decide to do something.
How will you engage, move towards or away from the question and the people?
The courageous act is to decide and do something.
To do nothing is a decision but I don’t think it is an act of courage.
“You can’t be neutral on a moving train” – Noam Chomsky
Progress
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order”
Alfred North Whitehead, American philosopher
Ethical Leadership, October 6-9, 2013
I will be speaking at the 12th Annual Compliance & Ethics Institute on October 6th – 9th in Washington DC. If you would like more information http://www.complianceethicsinstitute.org. If you have any questions, please let me know.
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