Our world needs more kindness. It is a sad state of affairs when a simple act of kindness is so rare that it jumps out at us. That happened to me today when delivering a few groceries to my mother-in-law. Her apartment is on the 9th floor of her building. When I got in the …
Tag: Values
How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives
Occasionally a phrase jumps off a page (or, more likely, a computer or smartphone screen) and grabs me. That happened the other day with a tweet, although I've forgotten who tweeted it. What I recall was the insightful statement: "How we spend our days is how we spend our lives." Fortunately, I kept the link …
Continue reading How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives
Book Review: “The Millennials” by Thom S. Rainer and Jess W. Rainer
If you'd like to better understand the Millennial generation, also known as Gen Y - those born approximately between the years 1980 and 2000 - then I suggest you read the book The Millennials: Connecting to America's Largest Generation by Thom Rainer and his son Jess Rainer. Thom is a Baby Boomer while Jess is a Millennial. …
Continue reading Book Review: “The Millennials” by Thom S. Rainer and Jess W. Rainer
Thrive Together
This is the last in a five-part series covering the five corporate values of my company, Humana: Inspire Health Cultivate Uniqueness Rethink Routine Pioneer Simplicity Thrive Together Today's subject: Thrive Together. What does that mean and how can we live that value? If we consider the word "thrive," it brings to mind definitions such as …
Pioneer Simplicity
We're nearing the end of this five-part series covering the five corporate values of my company, Humana. Those values, again, are: Inspire Health Cultivate Uniqueness Rethink Routine Pioneer Simplicity Thrive Together I've also written about the helpfulness of using these values in decision making. With five excellent, simply stated values such as these, it's hard …
