January 2011
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Exploring New Missions
I spent the majority of my childhood in Maine where a favorite expression is the phrase, “You can’t get theyah from heyah.” (Translation: You can’t get there from here.) This is the humorous reply a Mainer delivers to a person “from away” (aka tourist) who has just asked for directions.
Some people hear this statement and feel...
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“Go my sons burn your books,
Buy yourselves stout shoes.
Get away to the...”
– Peter Severinus, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“Never noticed a female monkey not climbing as well as a male, have you?”
– Don Whillans, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“…If given the chance to go back, I would not take it. Therefore, the...”
– Peter Matthiessen, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“Hope resides in togetherness.”
– African proverb, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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Seeing Beyond The Horizon – Part Two
In Part One of this series of posts on Seeing Beyond The Horizon, I wrote of the need of trailblazers to hone eleven techniques to make good decisions to survive and thrive in an increasingly ambiguous world. The essential skill that trailblazers must master is Seeing Beyond The Horizon. It is one of many that I first shared in an earlier post on The Differences Between Managers, Leaders and...
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“Only when one is connected to one’s own core is one connected to others, I am...”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh (from one of my favorite books, Gift from the Sea), and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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Seeing Beyond The Horizon – Part One
Today is an uncertain time. The future is not going to get any easier. As leaders, we need to realize that many of the problems that lie ahead will have no clear solution. The choices we will need to make will be between alternatives quite difficult to choose between — given faster and faster turnaround times. Making prudent decisions in less time with either no data, or too much data,...
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“Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as...”
– Aldo Leopold, one of my favorite nature authors from A Sand County Almanac, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore, we must...”
– Reinhold Niebuhr’s quote is the last paragraph in Tree of Failure by David Books in yesterday’s New York Times
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“The chief’s wealth is his subjects.”
– Congolese proverb, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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Shift The Rhetoric to "No Bullies Allowed"
After this weekend’s tragedy in Tucson, the vitriolic rhetoric among our politicians has come under intense scrutiny. Whether it did or didn’t push Jared Lee Loughner to pull the trigger on Saturday, I want it to stop for the simple reason that it’s bullying behavior that’s out of control.
As a voter, I do not believe bullies make good...
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“Double check your knot before you leave the ground.”
– Alison Osius, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“We never understand a thing so well, and make it our own, as when we have...”
– Rene Descartes, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“Play for more than you can afford to lose, and you will learn the game.”
– Winston Churchill, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“IF
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming...”
– Rudyard Kipling, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel is dedicated to Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford who I hope is able to recover and share more of her leadership style with her Constituents and the rest of us.
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“Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the...”
– Dag Hammarskjold, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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NatGeo Adventure's Next Best Adventure Bucket List... →
In an earlier post, I shared National Geographic’s Ultimate Adventure Bucket List which is best suited to EXTREME sports enthusiasts. Today’s post shares adventures that may resonate and inspire the REST OF YOU trailblazers and leaders. May this post help spark you to In an Pick A Destination for 2011.
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“Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another’s...”
– Joshua Loth Liebman, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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The Ultimate Adventure Bucket List -- National... →
I mentioned bucket lists in an earlier post, on Pick A Destination for 2011. Here are more ideas for all you trailblazers who are also extreme sport enthusiasts!
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“Without a leader, black ants are confused.”
– Ugandan proverb, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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“The only true solution of our political and social problems lies in cultivating...”
– Teddy Roosevelt, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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Get Unstuck. Conduct a S.W.O.T. - A Trailblazer...
In an earlier post, I shared an exercise on how to pick a destination in 2011. And some of you may have used it and are off on your journey. Others may be stuck, not sure of where to head.
If that’s the case for you, I’d like to offer another exercise to try. It’s called a SWOT analysis. It’s a great tool to add to your Trailblazer Survival Kit....
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be...”
– Steve Jobs (courtesy of Maureen Weisner — thanks for sharing, Maureen) and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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The Leadership Book I Most Often Reach for First...
At this time of year, we are being inundated with top ten lists. Many lists in the business world press are lists of “must read” books that have been published in the past year. And, yes, there are great ones out there. (A future “must read” book list post, to include in your Trailblazer’s Survival Kit, is in the works.)
So, I asked myself as I began this post,...
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“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us...”
– e. e. cummings, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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Pick A Destination for 2011
Hope you all had a great holiday week.
I spent the first part of my holiday week enjoying some fabulous holiday festivities and snow sports with family and friends. Then I spent the second half on a bit of a personal retreat to kick off my own 2011 Time to Climb planning that I discussed in an earlier post. I took time to reflect on 2010, review and...
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“Focus on future solutions rather than past problems.”
– Gary Faris, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
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2011 is THE Time to Climb!
For the past quarter, I’ve been working with several client executive teams on their strategic plans.
One way I help them is to guide them to raise their viewpoint to a 50,000 foot level so they can better appreciate their journey to date and choose where they want to head tomorrow.
From this eagle eye perspective, they can see the landscape below...
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“Count your blessings, cut your losses, and CREATE your own yellow brick road.”
– Adapted from The Wiz, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel