Promoted? Step Up!

“Promotion is not an honorific for time served.”

Many people, after years of dedicated service, are promoted. Whereupon, they immediately fail in the new role. It’s not the nice new shoulder boards; it’s not the scrambled eggs on the shiny hat brim. It’s the fact that they have not gotten their head around what the new role means, requires, demands in the way of changed perspective, behavior and demeanor.

You don’t get to be the same person you’ve always been.

An “Art” to Beginning

In the beginning, there was a bad joke.
And no one remembers what came after…

There’s an awkward, dark moment before a presentation begins… Disaster lurks there. The audience is wondering how to spend the next forty minutes…

Not everyone in that vast audience is silent yet… They’re still scattered, still buzzing, shifting, looking around, sizing up the location, their seat, their colleagues, the program. They’re bored… Maybe a little bit

Engaged Receptivity

“So I’m sitting in this little room in the old 493 Union Hall, and I’m just playing away, and there’s this old guy standing there. He’s listening to me, probably as long as he could take it, and he said, ‘Hey kid, do you know what’s the most important thing about playing music?’ ”
“And of course, being young, I thought, ‘How dare he interrupt me?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, yeah, your technique, your fingers.’ ”
“He said, ‘No, this is the key: Listening.’

Thirty Hours to Art

Thirty Hours to Art

“He who works with his Hands is a Laborer.
He

Fusion = Alignment

Fusion = Alignment

“Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don’t understand us.”
— Malcolm de Chazal
Mauritian Writer, Painter, Poet
1902 – 1981