Eclectic Change

Sometimes you really need peanut butter in the house.

My mother used to say:  "If you make your bed, then you have to lie in it."  As a result of this upbringing, I am a bit of a product of "Calvinism". I tend to think that good things won't last and I always wait for the other shoe to drop.   Friends would say I am a glass half empty kind of person.  (Am I using to many metaphors?) My great fortune in life is that my better half lives life with such optimism and positivity it is almost sickening.  (OK, enough with the metaphors except fo...

What The Wii Can Teach Us About Employee Engagement

Do great minds think alike?  I had started a draft of this post two days ago and filmed some of the video clips that I wanted to include when I read Tanveer Naseer's recent blog post: What A Soda Vending Machine Can Teach Us About Employee Engagement I have decided to "borrow" the same title format in both homage and it is catchier than the one I was originally using. Santa brought the family a Wii for Christmas No can say that the Wii doesn't draw you in - a little like gambling.  A f...

Eclectic Change Through The Discovery Power of Metaphors

Metaphor matters because it opens the door to discover. This blog is about discovery as much as it is about change.  Metaphors are all around us and most of the time we are not even aware of how they influence us.  We may may decisions and choices that are not as conscious as we thought.  Understanding the power of metaphors and how to use them in our own lives is one eclectic way to create change. How to create your own metaphors may be a little more challenging.  The more logic you apply t...

Mary Poppins as a medaphor of eclectic change or 5 skills of Change Agents

Around the time that I was designing and contemplating this new blog, I ended up watching "Mary Poppins" with my family one weekend.  I had forgotten how entertaining it is regardless of one's age.  I had also forgotten how many years it has been since its first release.  Besides feeling nostalgically old, I began to look at it in a new light.* While the protagonist is Mary Poppins herself, I began to see that she represented not the new leadership of the 21st century as one might imagine but...