Kristin's Blog
The Power of Story
This past month, I had the incredibly fulfilling experience of working with the IDEA Public School System in south Texas. The story of IDEA’s history is quite compelling and inspiring. In a nutshell, during their stint as Teach for America corps members, Tom Torkelson and JoAnn Gama founded the IDEA Academy, the first IDEA Public School, in Donna, TX…
Choices are the Key
Recently, I read a copy of Jeff Bezos’s commencement address to Princeton’s graduating class of 2010. Jeff, of course is the CEO of Amazon and was also a graduate of Princeton. I was struck by his comments relative to choice and how our choices are THE key to our lives direction. A few of his…
Building a Personal Brand
What does alignment have to do with building your reputation and personal brand? This latest podcast from Kristin addresses this topic.
Need a reason to smile?
Sometimes I know I do! This weekend I stumbled across a video that brought a smile to my face. It starts a bit sappy, yet, I promise it will change your frame as you start the day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4 On this hump day, what if each of us found one unexpecting person to try this out…
What about fleas?
Some of you reading this will begin to chuckle, as you know where this is heading. You see, a few weeks ago, after my sister’s dog, Cleo, rumbled in a yard where there was a propensity of fleas, I became ‘host B’ to those that jumped from Cleo to me as I bathed her. It goes without saying,…
The Steven Slater Bar
As Devin Leonard of Business Week offered last week: “What’s remarkable about the case of Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant who quit his job in magnificent style on Aug. 9, is not that an airline worker would snap after an encounter with an unruly passenger on a mid-morning Pittsburgh-to-JFK run. It’s that so much…
Passion is Fuel
Call me a sucker, yet I have always loved the movie Chariots of Fire, which made its debut (yes, I am dating myself) in 1981. It was a British film that tells the true story about two athletes in the 1924 Olympics, Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God and Harold…
ABCD's of Organization
Recently, in the Dallas Morning News, I read a unique article on getting a handle on clutter and organization. It caught my eye because it was all about those people that hoard – in which I continue to be amazed, repulsed, and intrigued. What drives people to hoard and have closets made out of spare…
Nolan versus Cuban - Role Models of Different Sorts?
For those of us in Texas, this recent standoff between Nolan Ryan and Mark Cuban to buy the Texas Rangers was right up there with the Jerry Jones/Jimmy Johnson and the firing of Tom Landry back in 1989. Old perceptions, die hard. For those of us who are purists, the only choice for ownership was Nolan…
Growth Through Hell
When I lead leadership development workshops, we often begin with a well-known exercise which highlights a person’s Journey Line – in other words: how a person has gone through life up to this point, and how their highs and lows create the person (and leader) they have become. I, for one, believe we grown and learn…