March 2008 Archives

From the TED Conference in 2007, Daniel Goleman talks about how emotional empathy is about noticing first.  This concept reminds me of the Buddhist axiom of "calm, then insight." 

Try this now:  Web Accelerator by Google.  Even if you have a new computer, it makes the web faster.  How do they do that?!  Smiling.  Happy.

Article does a nice job describing what self awareness is (being conscious of what you're good at while acknowledging what you still have yet to learn. This includes admitting when you don't have the answer and owning up to mistakes) and isn't (the belief that we must appear as though we know everything all the time or else people will question our abilities, diminishing our effectiveness as leaders)