Key locales that love weathervanes
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- Written by Karen Smith-Will
- Category: The Consulting Arts
I'd like to write more about this in the future, but in the meantime, here are a couple of places that love their weathervanes and cupolas. If you know of any other towns that feature a lot of them, please contact me so that I can add them to my research. 📧 (The hummingbird weathervane to the left is mine, and the cupola was made by an Amish company in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.)
Balance ⚖️ in Leadership: Inspiring vs. Inflicting pain
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- Written by Karen Smith-Will
- Category: Coaching & Consulting
A decade ago, I asked this question: "[H]ow can parents--think coaches, leaders--push just enough to inspire, but not enough to inflict pain? I'm not being rhetorical here." [It was published as a public post; I typically have between 1,000-2,000 friends; I can't control Facebook's rules so I have no idea how many people actually saw this post.]
The responses are below. What was surprising to me is that no one said their parents rocked at this. And frankly, parents just get the first 18 years; after this, leaders are the people who should be in this space to inspire for the next 4-5 decades of a person's career.
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Life Savers™️ & Servant Leadership
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- Written by Karen Smith-Will
- Parent Category: Research
- Category: Life Savers: 100+ Years of Sweetness
This article is actually a really meaningful one for me. My masters is in Leadership, and Servant Leadership was one focus of my research. So it was pretty exciting to discover a leader from Life Savers had written about this topic! I guess you could call this article my book report on Cheryl Bachelder's Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others.
When were the Arts Added to Science? STEaM
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- Written by Karen Smith-Will
- Category: The Consulting Arts
Subtitle: A Timeline for the Transition from STEM to STEaM
Tonight, I was inspired to research the ultimate inclusion of the arts into the STEM* domain...vis a vis, "STEaM." While the "a" refers to "the arts," there is an implicit expectation that the arts involves creativity that is anticipated to fuel critical thinking that results in innovation.
Valutivity's Companies/Products
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- Written by Karen Smith-Will
- Parent Category: Coaching & Consulting
- Category: Main
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