From the monthly archives:

July 2009

da Vinci – Greatest Individual Contributor of All Time

Leadership

Last Friday’s post discussed the difference between Individual Contributor and Leader. I wanted to re-iterate that there is nothing wrong with being an individual contributor by writing a post about an individual who has greatly influenced how I live my life: Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo Da Vinci was the most productive human being who ever [...]

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Individual Contributor or Leader?

Leadership

Often a great individual contributor deceives herself into believing they are a wonderful leader. An individual contributor is someone who is great at doing tasks, or doing a particular . We have all heard disgruntled co-workers say “nobody can do the job better than I,” or “I should have gotten the promotion, they can’t even [...]

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Insecurity Gone Wild!

Leadership

When I was a recent graduate from my master’s program and new as an engineer, I was the only woman on the team. I was insecure and my pride was in my engineering degree.  But my manager repeatedly gave me writing assignments on top of the process work.  The assignments consisted of bids, inter-office memos [...]

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Letting Go of Oswald Part 2

Leadership

Yesterday I shared the story of Walt Disney’s first, but not well known character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.  It’s a story of determination and audacity. What’s fantastic about the story is that Oswald returned from Universal Studios to the Walt Disney Company in 2006! I can think of many instances where I questioned if I [...]

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Letting go of Oswald Part 1

Leadership

This story is one of few non-biblical stories that have shaped my character. I hope you get as much out of it as I do. In 1927, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon short films burst onto the movie scenes by Universal Pictures. He was Universal’s first animated character.  Oswald was popular through the 1930s with [...]

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Leadership Big Bang Theory

Leadership

Most of us have heard some remnants of the Big Bang Theory regarding the origin of the universe. Essentially, the universe came out of a “singularity” – an infinitely small, infinitely hot and infinitely dense zone.  Since the  universe began, it has been expanding. As I was re-reading Stephen Hawking’s book, “A Brief History of Time” and reflecting [...]

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