Leadership Virtuosity: Lee Thayer’s Call for Leaders to be Mindful
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / July 27, 2010 / Posted in Mindful LeadershipLee Thayer’s Leadership Virtuosity is his latest book that is a must read for all who want to see what is the cost of becoming a virtuoso leader.
It would be a good idea to remember to re-read Buddha’s Kalama Sutra as a reminder of leadership and followership and now jumping to conclusions. The [...]
Response to an article on the Running Shoe Debate
1 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / December 13, 2009 / Posted in Mindful RunningThe Running Shoe Debate: How Barefoot Runners are Shaping the Shoe Industry
By Tyghe Trimble in April 22, 2009 edition of Popular Mechanics
http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/4314401.html
Debate is taking a stance that one’s ideas are correct and the other side’s are wrong. Discussion comes from the same derivation at concussion and percussion: A hitting up against. In [...]
This Moment/Present Moment: An Idea Worth Spreading by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, Neuroanatomist
1 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / September 29, 2009 / Posted in Meditation, MindfulnessWhat a wonder gift Jill Bolte shares with the world from her TED Presentation She shares her journey of her brain from the inside out as she talks about her stroke. For someone reflecting on Mindfuless, she vividly addresses what life is about: This moment. Present moment.
Time Span and Being Mindful
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / July 13, 2009 / Posted in Mindful Business, Mindful Leadership, MindfulnessDear friend and fellow Vistage Chair Tom Foster continues to bring the work of Elliot Jaques to the business community. This little piece about Time Span is helpful in realizing our role in creating the space where we find ourselves. I paraphrase the title of a book, that I often use, written [...]
Taking a Spirituality Survey Mindfully
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / July 8, 2009 / Posted in Meditation, MindfulnessI thought that some of you might be interested in taking Jonathan Ellerby’s Spirituality Survey.
I share the Kalama Sutra and James Hollis’ perspective on Personal Authority to help you help Jonathan “capture a better unbiased understanding of how people experience spirituality in America, and the world.”
The Kalama Sutra
The Kalama Surta is the Buddha’s reply to [...]
The Problem Named Is The Problem Solved
1 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / April 11, 2009 / Posted in Mindful Business, Mindful LeadershipI had a meeting today with a Vistage 29 member candidate. The issue got around to difficulties in dealing with Spriggs from a partnering company. Spriggs’ agenda seemed to be that in these difficult economic times she was circling the wagons and focused on preserving capital and riding out the next six months to a [...]
Externalizing and Freeing The Mind To Be Present
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / February 5, 2009 / Posted in Mindful Business, Mindful LeadershipDear friend, fellow runner and fellow Vistage Chair Tom Foster has a great daily blog that is a wonderful distillation of Tom’s own philosophy and that of Eliott Jaques. You can check out and subscribe to his site at: Managementblog.org. His blog today is a reminder about uncluttering the mind:
Goals Don’t Stay the Same
Thu, February [...]
Busy Trap: Leadership Starts with Leading Oneself
2 Comments by Ozzie ML / October 20, 2008 / Posted in Mindful LeadershipGood friend and former TEC Chair, Corey Olynik, has been writing a weekly column for a number of years called: Ideas? Questions! I’ve subscribed to it when I first found out about it. I thought I’d share his Idea/Question for this week of October 20th. A most helpful column to become what Lee Thayer so [...]
