Eclectic Change

Encouraging Differences Starts at Home

Everyone wants to be accepted for who they are.  Mothers are great for that.  While they have high hopes for us, the bottom line is that mothers want us to be happy.  Mothers also quickly learn how their children are similar and how they are are different from them.  The good mothers foster and encourage those differences.  I had a mother like, that even though she worried all the time about me. My mother tried hard to manage me . . . she figured out pretty quickly that I wasn't at all like h...

Is Transparency Always The Right Choice? (Video)

I am the first person to believe that transparency is a good thing. I often preach it.  After reading a respected colleague of mine who does a lot work in the Middle East and Asia, I began to have a few reservations. So here are some thoughts for discussion. I'd love to hear your views. In the above video, I mention the book "Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor"  by Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman, James O’Toole.  You can find a nice little video of O'Toole discussing the b...

A Christmukah Story: Promoting Inter-cultural Respect at Work

I want to wish you all a wonderful and joyous holiday season however you choose to celebrate. I am reprinting an article from a colleague that celebrates our differences and diversity in the workplace. At the end of the post, I have embedded a short video from TedTalks that describes what I think may be the first steps to finding common ground. A Christmukah Story was first published in February 2007. There is a lot to celebrate this month.  In addition to the holiday season, December 3 is...