Jessica Wang works as an assistant for Dr. Robert Wright at Wright, the personal and professional growth and leadership development organization that Dr. Robert Wright and Dr. Judith Wright founded that created the Transformational Leadership Award. This is her experience of honoring Dr. Muhammad Yunus. Chicago, Friday night, April 27, Dr. Robert Wright and Dr. [...]
I just got one of the best quotes ever from Audrey Gordon: Ticket to Heaven (Daily Kabbalah Tune Up) Wednesday May 9, 2012 There is a story about a man who passes on and meets a guardian angel whose was sent to prepare him to prove his worthiness to be accepted into heaven. The man [...]
One of my students shared this moving story by Bob Greene about Jeff Zaslow. Jeff Zaslow was investigating a trend of professors consciously thinking about how they would deliver their last lecture, when he came across a professor at Carnegie Mellon who had pancreatic cancer who might literally be giving his last lecture. Jeff made [...]
Was Steve Jobs's obnoxious personality necessary for the beauty he brought into our world? I've been thinking about the world differently since reading his autobiography. I've been looking at file cabinets and thinking about how they could be designed more beautifully. I've been telling myself if toilet stalls could be designed more beautifully. His obsession [...]
Judith, that is Dr. Judith Wright, my wife and partner, met a business turn-around expert and asked him how he did it. “Fooy,” he answered. Judith responded, “No, seriously, how do you do it?” He chuckled in response and said that he meant it and spelled it F. U. E. He went on to say [...]
At our seminar last Thursday I had a pleasant conversation with a mother of three who asked if we had children, to which I said no. She immediately said that children were the biggest blessing in her life and that we probably had plenty of time, that parents don’t have, to work on our relationship. [...]
What is your mission and creed? How will it guide you today? John Quincy Adams wrote, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” What are your actions inspiring? Check out this young lady and go forth living your creed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uYafcQ8SV0&feature=relmfu
Meaningful conversations and building our life teams requires persistence and works better with a clear sense of mission. No matter how clear we are, how much clear intent we have, we still need to face rejection. This is how we should face rejection: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP4abiHdQpc&feature=player_embedded.
I was recently with a group talking about getting off work and going to the bar Friday night “to have some fun.” Have you ever noticed this? The implication was that work is suffering—also that fun requires alcohol. Simply put, is it really fun if you need alcohol? …and if it is not really fun, [...]
