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I've just returned from the new South Point Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas where I spent two days with 100 managers of one of the major US wireless providers. It was Mission #38 for 2007 and turned out to be an exceptional platform for Responsibility Redefined. Here's why… |
Seven years ago my client "the exec" was a first-line manager in a Dallas call center. He attended Knowledge Team Leadership (then called Being Powerful in Any Team) with his Director and peer managers. He says the experience changed that team, his life, and career. That team went on to accomplish great things and its leader has shared many stories with me over the years. But I haven't much talked to the exec. I knew he was out there because every couple of years I'd get a brief "atta-boy" from him to an issue of Responsibility eTips. |
A few months ago a meeting planner in his group called and said the exec had recently been promoted to VP overseeing operations involving 7000 people and had asked her to call me and check my availability. He was holding his first managers meeting and wanted to introduce his new management team to Responsibility Redefined and Teamwork Is An Individual Skill. |
When I got the exec on the phone, and after congratulating him on his rapid ascent, I asked him "why me, why now?" And this is what he said: |
I'm the VP now and I get to decide what messages my people hear. Yours is the first message I want them to hear. It is the most powerful and useful leadership perspective I've learned. Responsibility Redefined has had a huge impact on me personally and on my approach to teamwork and leadership. And it will be central to the responsible leadership culture I intend to develop in this region. |
Our plan was to have me spend the first afternoon of the three-day meeting introducing his managers to Responsibility Redefined, and then the next morning introducing them to Teamwork Is An Individual Skill. Then, they were going to apply what they learned while exploring and deciding their top priorities for the region for the next year. His expectation was that the material would |
open them up to how responsibility works, |
"lubricate" them to take individual and collective ownership, and |
lead each to see the contribution they could make to the group, as well as the contribution the group can make to each individual. |
As a quick aside, this is a great application of this material. In the last three years I have frequently been asked to open an off-site meeting with a Responsibility Redefined keynote or workshop. Clients report that it complete focuses the conversations that follow, and the Responsibility Redefined language is noticed and used. It changes the conversation. |
In Las Vegas, when the exec introduced me to his 100 managers here is what he said: |
I want you to commit to engaging mentally this afternoon. This is not rah-rah motivational material, but it is inspiring. This is powerful information about how you dictate your own life like it or not. It will challenge you, it will be hard work this afternoon, and if you are not mentally engaged you will miss it. |
I was introduced to Christopher and this message seven years ago. That meeting where we met stands out in my mind as the most profound and powerful learning experience of my life and career. It set my trajectory as a leader. It can do the same for you. My hope is that Responsibility Redefined is how we conduct our business together and how we lead this organization. |
With a set-up like that, I definitely had people's attention! And they learned, and they worked, and they engaged, and they threw themselves into every exercise I gave them. And at the end of the day they said "cool" and "awesome" and "amazing." |
Responsibility Redefined Lessons |
There are so many I could draw here, but I'll highlight three: |
Responsibility Redefined is foundational and fundamental to positive leadership. The exec's story is amazing, but to him and to me, it is completely believable. It is not magic. It is the everyday practice of Responsibility Redefined applied to organizational leadership. Of course he's enjoyed a rapid ascent in his career. He's a smart guy with excellent management skills, and a passion for positive leadership based on mastering his own Responsibility Process. |
Changing the conversation from Lay Blame and Justify, Shame and Obligation, to Responsibility. Even a brief dip into the waters of Responsibility Redefined (for instance through a workshop) will expose good people's tendencies to casually practice Lay Blame, Justify, Shame, and Obligation so that they then immediately begin to catch themselves and change their language which changes their thoughts. When you change the conversation about responsibility you change people's thoughts and actions. When you eliminate wasteful thought and action what's left is valuable thoughts and value-adding actions. It's the new Quality… Continuous Improvement in thinking and action by simply eliminating the waste. |
Context does make a difference. You can practice Responsibility anywhere and anytime. And I do my best to do so. But when you have a positive, confident, and humble leader holding the space for Responsibility Redefined, it sure makes it enjoyable to spread the word. Not only was it enjoyable for me as the vessel for the message and the learning experience, but it was clear to me how enjoyable it was for the managers. Imagine having to listen to me or someone else teaching Responsibility Redefined if your leader didn't practice it… That's why I generally offer Responsibility Redefined as a personal practice, not a corporate one, so audience members can choose where to practice responsibility. And that's why I'm only interested in coaching senior leaders who want to master responsibility for themselves, so they can create a context—culture—of responsible leadership and culture.<eot>Rage Against the Machine’s highly anticipated reunion tour sold out in minutes, prompting the band to add more dates the very next day. Those sold out in record time, too, prompting an uproar from fans, and now the band is giving people what they want: even more shows! |
The addition of four more dates, including two more on top of the three already hosted at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, brings the total of reunion dates to exactly 50, with five in NYC. That’s a nice round number if ever there was one. |
Tickets go on sale on Thursday, February 27, at 11am local time, and are expected to come in at a flat $125 regardless of location, similar to the rest of the tour. The band will continue utilizing their controversial “charity pricing” model, which sees them mark up 10% of all seats with everything above standard face value going towards charity. The effort has netted more than $3 million for charity so far. |
Here is the entire tour, with new dates noted in bold. With tickets for most dates having sold out long ago, your only chance to score a way in may be on secondary market sites like StubHub — you can try your hand at each show’s corresponding ticket link.<eot>Homi J. Bhabha was born in 1909. His love for aesthetics began early, in an environment pervaded by music and culture. His family’s impressive library collection of books on art and music, as well as their large collection of gramophone records of Western classical music influenced him greatly. |
Bhabha showed an early inclination for painting and drawing, and took lessons from Jehangir Lalkaka, a celebrated Parsee artist. As a young boy, he won several prizes at the Annual Exhibitions of the Bombay Art Society. |
He attended Elphinstone College and the Royal Institute of Science in Bombay and then joined Caius College of Cambridge University to to obtain a degree in mechanical engineering in 1927. |
It was while he was at Cambridge that he put his artistic skills to use. He designed the stage décor for Calderon’s play “Life is a Dream” for Handel’s “Sussanah” and for Mozart’s opera “Idomeno”. |
Professionally, he was a trained engineer turned physicist of international stature, but equally, a serious painter, a lover of music and literature and a great patron of the arts. |
He was an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). Colloquially known as “father of the Indian nuclear programme”, Bhabha was also the founding director of the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) which is now named the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in his honour. TIFR and AEET were the cornerstone of Indian development of nuclear weapons which Bhabha also supervised as director. |
TIFR is also home to a priceless collection of art, making it unique among scientific institutions anywhere in the world. This collection spans several decades of the second half of the twentieth century. |
He was awarded Padma Bhushan by Government of India in 1954. He later served as the member of the Indian Cabinet’s Scientific Advisory Committee and provided the pivotal role to Vikram Sarabhai to set up the Indian National Committee for Space Research. |
In 1966, Bhabha died in a plane crash near Mont Blanc, while heading to Vienna, Austria to attend a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Scientific Advisory Committee. |
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Amid rumblings in Congress, Salman Khurshid says support for Sonia Gandhi, Rahul apparent to anyone not blind |
Updated Nov 22, 2020 | 19:20 IST |
Khurshid, who is considered close to the Gandhi family, hit out at those criticising the Congress leadership in public, asserting that there are enough forums in the party for expressing views. |
Khurshid said that Sibal and others should have not discussed the party's internal matters in media |
Sibal recently said the people of the country do not consider Congress to be an effective alternative anymore |
Voices of dissent within the Congress erupted following its dismal performance in the Bihar polls |
New Delhi: Amid voices of dissent within the Congress following a dismal performance in the Bihar polls, senior leader Salman Khurshid on Sunday ruled out leadership crisis in the party, saying support for Sonia Gandhi and Rahul is "apparent to anyone who is not blind". |
Khurshid, who is considered close to the Gandhi family, hit out at those criticising the Congress leadership in public, asserting that there are enough forums in the party for expressing views and doing so outside the party "hurts" it. |
He was referring to recent public criticism of the party leadership by senior leader Kapil Sibal and some others. |
"The leadership listens to me, I am given an opportunity, they (those criticising in the media) are given an opportunity, where does this thing come from that the leadership is not listening," Khurshid was quoted as saying by PTI. |
"Those who question (the leadership), if they claim to be democrats, they should have some courtesy to include us who don't question (the leadership) and inside the party we can decide whether they are more or we are more. All our objection is about this happening outside the party," he added. |
Congress constitutes three new committees; 4 'dissenters' including Shashi Tharoor, Anand Sharma given place |
Amid the growing clamour for a full-time president of the party, Khurshid said that the election committee is working on the election which is taking time due to COVID, adding that all the work and preparations are underway. |
Slamming those voicing concerns that Sonia Gandhi has been interim chief for over a year, he asked who decides one year is too long for having an interim chief. |
Khurshid slams Cong leaders for public criticism |
Commenting on remarks made by Sibal and another senior leader P Chidambaram against the party's performance in the recently-held Bihar elections and bypolls in several states, Khurshid said that they should have not discussed the party's internal matters in media. |
Voices of dissent within Congress |
Congress' poor show in the just-concluded Assembly elections in Bihar has reignited the debate on leadership crisis, and the need for revival and reform within the party. |
Sibal recently publically criticised the Congress leadership saying that the people of the country no longer consider the party to be an "effective alternative". The senior Congress leader also said that the party must recognise that it was in decline and "experienced minds, experienced hands and people who understand the political realities" need to converse to chalk out a strategy for party's revival. |
"We need to do several things at several levels – organisationally, articulation in the media in whatever form, putting up people who the people want to listen to, providing an active, thoughtful leadership who can articulate with a lot of circumspection," Sibal said, adding that time for introspection is over. |
Besides Sibal, Congress MP Karti P Chidambaram also said it was time for introspection and consultation in the party.<eot>Awards - St Joseph's College Mildura |
Catherine McAuley Excellence Awards |
Recognising excellence across all aspects of college life motivates and inspires our students to achieve more. The Catherine McAuley Excellence Awards acknowledge and reward the desire to excel whilst living our Mercy Values. The program consists of the Virtue Conquers Achievement Awards and the Principal's Award. |
Virtue Conquers Achievement Awards |
Led by our motto, 'Virtue Conquers', our young people work towards their individual goals with the responsibility of representing the college as they strive to achieve. |
Those who exemplify our Mercy Values receive certificates in four areas: |
Those students who receive certificates across all areas are eligible to receive gold, silver, and bronze Virtue Conquers badges. |
Each term, the Principal presents an award to one young person from every year level who has demonstrated excellence which may not be specifically covered by the criteria of the Virtue Conquers Achievement Awards. |
St Joseph's College students also represent our college on the sporting field as they do in both the classroom and the community. Whether in school or outside of school, all students who play sport should display sportsmanship and behaviour aligned with our Mercy Values. To celebrate sporting achievement, any student who has excelled in their chosen sport(s) can be nominated for awards throughout the year.<eot>20 Best Software jobs in Montgomery, TX (Hiring Now!) | Simply Hired |
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