Resources

I set a goal many years ago to live as a lady and strive to have wisdom.  

I hope that I will continue to acquire wisdom well into old age, and that I will always appreciate that there is much to learn and many ways to learn.  As such, our resources are appreciative of different ways of “knowing” and we hope you will be curious about those that are less conventional or familiar.

Harvard Business Publishing:  www.hbsp.harvard.edu

Center for Creative Leadership:  www.ccl.org
(What is creative leadership?  It's the capacity to think and act beyond the boundaries     that limit our effectiveness.)

The Noetic Society:  www.noeticsociety.org
(The word "noetic" comes from the ancient Greek nous, for which there is no exact equivalent in English. It refers to "inner knowing," a kind of intuitive consciousness - direct and immediate access to knowledge beyond what is available to our normal senses and the power of reason.)

Books

The Empowered Manager by  Peter Block

A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink

Do What You Are by Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron

Play by Stuart Brown and Christopher Vaughan

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Pat Lencioni

The Wisdom of Teams by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook by Peter M. Senge, Art Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts,
and Rick Ross

Survival of the Savvy by Rick Brandon and Marty Seldman

Best Home Business for People 50+ by Paul Edwards and Sarah Edwards

Finding Your Perfect Work by Paul Edwards and Sarah Edwards

Winnie the Pooh by A.A.Milne

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

Oh!  The Places You’ll Go by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel

"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room.  "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse.  "It's a thing that happens to you.  When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.

"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful.  "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse.  "You become.  It takes a long time.  That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.  Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby.  But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

-The Velveteen Rabbit-