SOMO Tag

03 Feb

Posted at 16:06h in Business by

Michael Roberto is a professor of management at Bryant University in Smithfield, RI and prior at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on strategic decision-making processes and senior management teams. From his blog: ‎10 years ago Columbia shuttle accident. 27 (!!) years ago CHALLENGER (first real tragedy I remember in my life). As Peter Drucker, management guru used to say after his inspirational workshops, “On Monday, don’t tell me how great it was; tell me what you’re doing differently.”...

21 Jan

Posted at 23:00h in Life Coaching, Uncategorized, Vision by

--and I know you do too. Came across this quote yesterday from John Updike: "Dreams come true; without that possibility nature would not incite us to have them." And of course, today being Martin Luther King, Jr. day -- and this year marking the 50th anniversary of that speech -- is meaningful to me. My dreams are full of meaning and purpose. They give me goose bumps when I think about them. And as Napoleon Hill reminds us in his Think and Grow Rich "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." You know something that separates an Olympian from a non-Olympian? Vision. The ability to look...

17 Jan

Posted at 14:32h in Cognitive-behavioral, Inspiration, Opportunity/Threat, resilience by

[caption id="attachment_996" align="alignleft" width="300"] Thank you to my dear friend Ruth Marcon to bring these words to my life - alongside so much other richness, depth.[/caption] Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its own focus....

14 Jan

Posted at 19:48h in Place, positive place, Social-Emotional Leadership, SOMO Leadership, well-being by

I am home today after three weeks away. I have mixed emotions. Exactly 21 days ago I left for New York/New Jersey on a road trip with my friend Craig. We had fun along route 80 and that fun parlayed into a fun Christmas with my family. It was a good time seeing everyone, staying at my childhood home, and eating lots of delicious Italian food. [caption id="attachment_978" align="alignleft" width="300"] Iceland, January 2013[/caption] Then, I spent a week in Iceland. What a beautiful place. “Thin,” as Rev. Tracey Lind recently described to me, meaning, it’s filled with spiritual energy – close to the...

06 Jan

Posted at 18:40h in Uncategorized by

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dream for the adventure of being alive. It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon...

18 Dec

Posted at 08:28h in Hope, Inspiration by

We shall not travel by the road we make, [caption id="attachment_962" align="alignright" width="432"] I feel so strongly - we must - build new roads - or at the very least, connect ones that haven't been connected before. #Innovation #Pioneers #SOMO[/caption] Ere day by day the sound of many feet Is heard upon the stones that now we break, We shall but come to where the cross-roads meet. For us the heat by day, the cold by night, The inch-slow progress and the heavy load, And death at last to close the long, grim fight With man and the beast and stone: for them - the road. For them the shade of...

05 Nov

Posted at 09:58h in family, Glimpse into Me, Social-Emotional Leadership by

This is a series of correspondences with my family (20 aunts, uncles, and cousins who are primarily Republican), starting with a note I sent last week. It is here: "I wish my moderate Republican friends would simply be honest. They all say they're voting for Romney because of his economic policies (tenuous and ill-formed as they are), and that they disagree with him on gay rights. Fine. Then look me in the eye, speak with a level clear voice, and say, "My taxes and take-home pay mean more than your fundamental civil rights, the sanctity of your marriage, your right to...

28 Oct

Posted at 19:59h in Glimpse into Me, My life, Opportunity/Threat by

[caption id="attachment_947" align="alignleft" width="225"] I dressed as a Human Sparker, lady style.[/caption] The last time I dressed as a woman I was in high school. I was Linda Richmond and my friend was Barbara Streisand. We went all coffee talk a la Mike Myers on Saturday Night Live. (Mind you this was before I came out of the closet.) It’s been a good 17 years (eek!) since I put on a dress. For the past several years, I’ve had a hankering to do it. Why? Just a sense that it would be good for my well-being to explore and own my feminine...

10 Oct

Posted at 07:27h in Character Strength, Glimpse into Me, Meaning, Moments that matter, neuroscience, Relationships, Social-Emotional Leadership, SOMO Leadership, Uncategorized by

The field of positive psychology lost a great friend and contributor today: Dr. Chris Peterson (1950-2012). [caption id="attachment_934" align="alignleft" width="321"] RIP CP.And thank you.[/caption] You may know Dr. Peterson as the guy who researched the VIA: the character strengths inventory we use often in SOMO Leadership Labs. (We're also using his book in SOMO 300!) He put a lot of work into this tool, combing the world's many moral texts for a ubiquitous classification of strengths and virtues. I know him as Chris, one of my professors in grad school. What an amazing teacher: humorous, zestful (in his own way) and wise -...

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