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Ann Oliveri
Chevy Chase, MD
Game-Changing Leadership Coach and Consultant
Interests: Mindfulness. Zen Qualities of Leadership. Nature of Community. Civic Entrepreneurship. Corporate Citizenship. Communities of Practice. Brand Storytelling. Slow Food. Turkish Rugs. Travel and Cities as Means for Cultivating Trust and Tolerance.
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Sense-making Shortage
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What skills do your members need to be in demand going forward? The Institute for the Future identifies and defines the top ten Future Work Skills that will be in short-supply in 2020 (my translation are in parentheses).Love this stuff:... Continue reading
Posted May 4, 2013 at Ann Oliveri
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Change Anything
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Posted Apr 18, 2013 at Meaning and Heart
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Beyond Wordle
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Text Is Beautiful goes beyond creating "word clouds" by filtering source text through analytics software to distill "concept clouds." To try it out, I pasted in the text of an essay I wrote, Associations as Engines of Change, my manfesto... Continue reading
Posted Apr 7, 2013 at Ann Oliveri
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How Coaching Works
Here's one of the most effective explanations of How Coaching Works I've seen. It's less than four mintues and is an animated stick-figure video without dialog. Delightful! Thanks to Coach Meg and Wellcoaches for this YouTube video. For more information,... Continue reading
Posted Feb 20, 2013 at Ann Oliveri
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Why has coaching grown so rapidly?
The International Coach Federation conducted the research, worldwide, to evaluate the impact of coaching. Here's a snapshot of the results: Why Coaching Works. Why Coaching Works infographic by swrightcreative. Continue reading
Posted Feb 9, 2013 at Meaning and Heart
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Dan Pink on Thinkr
Dan Pink's latest book repurposes our traditional thinking about sales and the skills you need to win others over: attunement, buoyance, and clarity. Sales for the 21st century. Thanks, again, Dan. Continue reading
Posted Feb 2, 2013 at Ann Oliveri
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A Garden's Rhythm and Nature's Mathematics
from Backyard Parables by Margaret Roach and Anne Kreamer's blog post "In the garden you need to know when to giveth, and when to taketh away, or it just doesn’t amount to anything out there but an incalculable mess. There is a rhythm to the goings-on, albeit somewhat more improvisation... Continue reading
Posted Jan 18, 2013 at Meaning and Heart
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Vow to Do Less, Not More, in 2013
Ray Fisman recently offered advice to resolution makers on Slate.com. "If you were to ask Princeton psychologist Eldar Shafir or Harvard economist Sendhil Mullainathan for a better New Year’s strategy, they’d likely suggest that the best resolution you can make is to do fewer things in 2013." "Shafir and Mullainathan... Continue reading
Posted Jan 7, 2013 at Meaning and Heart
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Charter for Compassion
My New Year's Declaration is: I am compassionate. To that end, I signed the Charter for Compassion, just one of 92,508 so commited. The Charter for Compassion is the result of Karen Armstrong's 2008 TED Prize wish and made possible by the generous support of the Fetzer Institute. It was... Continue reading
Posted Jan 3, 2013 at Meaning and Heart
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Could peering into the Grand Canyon alter your perception of time?
"(P)eople who overuse the term “awesome” need to experience more actual awe, but now there’s good reason for everyone else to look into it as well. "In a recent study, people who were made to experience the emotion—which the researchers say is caused by encountering something so vast that you... Continue reading
Posted Dec 28, 2012 at Meaning and Heart
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6 Ways to Deepen Your Compassion to Help Other People
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6 Ways to Deepen Your Compassion to Help Other People is a guest post on the Tiny Buddha blog. I found it to be a valuable reminder of how to be present for others and to grow in compassion for human beings, including yourself. Continue reading
Posted Nov 9, 2012 at Meaning and Heart
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Lincoln's Cottage
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The Election is over and Veteran's Day is in a few days. The single best place in Washington to contemplate both, and examine who we are and what we need to do next, is the Lincoln Cottage Yesterday I was looking for somewhere to take a Red State cousin visiting... Continue reading
Posted Nov 7, 2012 at Meaning and Heart
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Gallagher Hall
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Gallagher Hall was home my freshman year of college and continues to be a freshman women's dorm, despite threats of extinction. It retains its unique reputation on campus of cultivating friendships that last, a senior tells us, four years. We're proof it's 40, and counting. Each floor shared one telephone,... Continue reading
Posted Oct 10, 2012 at Meaning and Heart
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Why Every CEO Needs a Coach
Published by Psychology Today on August 13, 2012 by Ray Williams, Wired for Success "Good leaders make people around them successful. They are passionate and committed, authentic, courageous, honest and reliable. But in today's high-pressure environment, leaders need a confidante, a mentor, or someone they can trust to tell the... Continue reading
Posted Oct 5, 2012 at Meaning and Heart
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Culture Wars
You know it's bad when CFOs flock to learning labs at ASAE's annual meeting on how to change the culture at work. Most described truly toxic situations, if not open warfare, between factions, staff factions not board politics! In some... Continue reading
Posted Aug 30, 2012 at Ann Oliveri
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How Does Your Idea Make Me Feel?
Seth Godin's post: Questions We Ask Before We Trust Your New Idea Who are you? Do I trust you? Am I afraid of it? Will this work for me? Who says it's important? What will my peers think? These are all variations of one complicated thread: how will this process... Continue reading
Posted Aug 26, 2012 at Be More Creative Now
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Change Your Words, Change Your World
Shout out to Rhea Blanken for passing on this You Tube video from an online marketing group, purplefeather.co.uk. Continue reading
Posted Aug 21, 2012 at Meaning and Heart
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Restoring Civil Discourse
Established at the University of Arizona in the wake of the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords, the National Institute for Civil Discourse recently announced the appointment of its first executive director, Dr. Carolyn Lukensmeyer, a friend and personal hero. Carolyn founded America Speaks in 1995 to "reinvigorate American Democracy by... Continue reading
Posted Aug 19, 2012 at Meaning and Heart
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The Power of Tic-Tac-Toe
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A speaker at ASAE 2012, Andrew Greenblatt, opened the consultant's four-box window, hurdled past x and y axes, and trampolined over the Venn diagram of social responsibility. By simply shifting to a tic-tac-toe board, the conversation changed. And that was... Continue reading
Posted Aug 17, 2012 at Ann Oliveri
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Mind Vacation
Need a larger perspective? Here's a TED ED video on infinity through the lens of mathematics. Embrace the paradox! Continue reading
Posted Aug 17, 2012 at Meaning and Heart
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Wonderstanding
The left brain owns linear and analytical thinking while the right processes all the other ways of knowing. Now scientists are exploring an "interesting middle place in the brain." "According to a study done by researchers at the University of British Columbia," Kecia Lynn reports on Big Think, "when the... Continue reading
Posted Aug 10, 2012 at Be More Creative Now
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Living by the Stopwatch?
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Steve Felix shared two defining characteristics of the Type A personality from Type A Behavior and Your Heart: Free-floating Hostility--everything makes him angry; and, Time Urgency--living by a stop watch rather than a calendar. Recovering Type As replace the stopwatch with a Stop Watch. What's your S.O.S.? Try: Stop. Oxygenate.... Continue reading
Posted Aug 10, 2012 at Meaning and Heart
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Project Runway Prezi
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For our Monday Project Runway session, I built a basic Prezi to give everyone the big picture on the design exercise--avoiding the brain damage of PowerPoint. You can find my simple Prezi in the cloud, accessible to all, view it,... Continue reading
Posted Aug 9, 2012 at Ann Oliveri
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Project Runway Design Challenge
Are you ready to design your wardrobe of leadership styles? Join Rhea Blanken and I on Monday morning at ASAE 2012 in Dallas for our Project Runway leadership session. Hubtag #ASAE12LB7. Grab a good seat and watch your peers strut... Continue reading
Posted Aug 8, 2012 at Ann Oliveri
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