Posts Tagged ‘Justin Brackett’

The Practice of Paying Attention

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Learning to pay attention and knowing what to pay attention to is a key discipline for leaders but one that rarely comes naturally to those of us who are barreling thought life with our eyes fixed on a goal.

- Ruth Haley Barton

What We Can Learn From Charlie Bucket

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

For those of you that have that spark in your heart for the EXTRAordinary, you may know What . He is the young boy that was the centerpiece of the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory story. If you remember, Willy Wonka was determined to find the young person that had the heart [passion] to gift the entire Chocolate Factory too. Wonka was not looking for the smarts to run it because he could train the young person about chocolate this and chocolate that. Instead, he wanted Charlie Bucket, a young person who had the character, integrity, and heart to nurture the organization and take care of the Umpa Lumpas.

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4 Things We Can Learn From Kanye West

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Monday, on the MTV Video Awards, Kanye West showed his true colors re: what he thinks about himself and how he values other people’s talents, skills and feelings. If you have not seen the video, I would suggest that you watch it.

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Classic Example of People Who Don’t Get Blogging!

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

This morning I was sent this email, which I found astounding. There are still people out there who just don’t get blogging! Do people really still think this way? Really?

Does your company see the value of blogging? Or do they view it the way this company does?

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Dope, Soap, & Hope :: Teachers Are Everywhere.

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

I found this video on Zach Arias blog yesterday and wanted to pass it on to you – it will rock your world…

Ask Twitter vs Google:

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Over the last few months I have made huge transition from asking Google questions to asking Twitter. In my experience I get better information from my followers and a few good twitter search sites, than I ever did digging through Google… I love not having to wade through pages and pages of people who have posted on their blogs that : “ they have tried but have not found the answer they need”.  Why not interact with people vs asking a huge computer?

I can see the emails now! “But I don’t have thousands of people following me!” well you have a few options, when you ask a question ask people to “RT” ( Re Tweet) you and you can also you these sweet tools:

twitQA ::  Is not the most beautiful site, its about as Plane Jane as they come, but it allows you to ask your questions in different categories : Sports, General, Travel, Cars, Environment, News, Health.  What makes this great is that twitQA can see questions and gets the info from the Twitter feed, vs you searching hastages on www.search.twitter.com .

IKnowTweet :: is very simple and easy to use it will look for phrases  such as “ Where is Asheville, NC” or “Why Is Asheville Really Beer Town USA” It then brings all the answers to one place for you to sort through. There’s an option to answer the questions and a list of popular terms; unfortunately, the site doesn’t list answers anywhere, which makes it a lot less useful than it could be.

So start asking Twitter your questions and see what happens!