by Linda Patten | Apr 10, 2014 | Lessons in Leadership
Our relationship with money can be very complicated. For many of us, money has always been an issue. It often wraps around our scarcity beliefs and thinking. What are the sayings you hear when I talk about money? Money doesn’t grow on trees. Money is the root of all...
by Linda Patten | Apr 9, 2014 | Lessons in Learning
In the fall of 1970, my dad gave me the gift of my first car. I know, I had been driving since I was 16 and had had other cars that I drove from 1966 to 1970, but they were not mine. The first and third car that I drove was Nader’s death car, the Chevrolet Corviar. In...
by Linda Patten | Apr 3, 2014 | Lessons in Leadership
With it firmly in place, a dream can weather any storm that comes our way and, with support, can handle the little weather patterns when naysayers try to move us off course. Naysayers are the bain of my existence especially w hen working on a dream. Naysayers are the...
by Linda Patten | Apr 2, 2014 | Lessons in Learning
What is it about going out of town and having whatever could go wrong, go wrong, i.e., Murphy’s Law. I was heading for Los Angeles to do registration for one of the organizations I have been working with since 1995 on their conferences. With that much experience, you...
by Linda Patten | Mar 26, 2014 | Lessons in Learning
In 1969, Edwin Starr wrote and produced a song about war. The refrain went: War, huh, yeah What is it good for Absolutely nothing If this is the case, then why does every generation have its war. For my grandparents, it was World War I, for my parents World War II,...
