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Are you a reflective leader? Reflection sometimes makes those around me laugh. Just yesterday I said to a colleague, "I was thinking...

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Happy Monday! I've long been inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's quote, "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." His inspiration for...

After much prodding by friends and colleagues, and even more from complete strangers with whom I’ve connected on LinkedIn, I decided to...

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Fortunate (or unfortunate, depending on perspective) for my staff, I attended the ACSA Women's Leadership Conference in Redondo Beach in...

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As we head into 2018, have you made a resolution? Okay...let's just call it a goal. Have you set any goals? If not, why not consider...

I recently happened upon an article that had a very similar prompt....and it made me think. Really think. I read the comments from those...

Four years ago, while a Director at the Santa Clara County Office of Education, I attended a three day Buck Institute training for...

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Dewitt Jones is one of America's top professional photographers. Twenty years with National Geographic photographing stories around the...

Having recently read and blogged about John Maxwell's newest publication, Intentional Living, I'm even firmer in my commitment to the...

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Success isn't always based on skill, talent or experience. Sometimes it is simply based on opportunity. And often that opportunity came...