Podcast appearances and mentions of John W Gardner

Las crisis son inevitables en la vida, en los negocios y hasta aun en la iglesia, pero un verdadero líder puede convertirlas en oportunidades. Como dijo el autor y conferencista John W. Gardner: "El liderazgo es la capacidad de convertir la visión en realidad". ¡Consigue 6 meses gratis de Dashlane Premium! Asegura tus contraseñas y cuida tus cuentas presionando aquí   Presentadora: Profesora Jacqueline Ruiz y Co-Presentadora: Aida Brignoni ¡Visítanos y síguenos!

Richard North Patterson is an American fiction writer, attorney and political commentator. His new legal thriller is TRIAL. Patterson graduated in 1968 from Ohio Wesleyan University and has been awarded that school's Distinguished Achievement Citation and his national fraternity's Alumni Achievement Award. He is a 1971 graduate of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and a recipient of that University's President's Award for Distinguished Alumni and its President's Award for Excellence. He has served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Ohio; a trial attorney for the Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.; and was the SEC's liaison to the Watergate Special Prosecutor. More recently, Patterson was a partner in the San Francisco office of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen before retiring from practice in 1993. He has served on the boards of his undergraduate and law schools, the National Partnership for Women and Families, the Family Violence Prevention Fund, PEN Center West, the Regional Panel For The Selection of White House Fellows, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, and the Renew Democracy Initiative, and was Chairman of Common Cause, the grassroots citizens lobby founded by John W. Gardner. He now serves on the Advisory Council of J Street, the pro-Israel, pro-peace advocacy group, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Richard North Patterson is an American fiction writer, attorney and political commentator. His new legal thriller is TRIAL. Patterson graduated in 1968 from Ohio Wesleyan University and has been awarded that school's Distinguished Achievement Citation and his national fraternity's Alumni Achievement Award. He is a 1971 graduate of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and a recipient of that University's President's Award for Distinguished Alumni and its President's Award for Excellence. He has served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Ohio; a trial attorney for the Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.; and was the SEC's liaison to the Watergate Special Prosecutor. More recently, Patterson was a partner in the San Francisco office of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen before retiring from practice in 1993. He has served on the boards of his undergraduate and law schools, the National Partnership for Women and Families, the Family Violence Prevention Fund, PEN Center West, the Regional Panel For The Selection of White House Fellows, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, and the Renew Democracy Initiative, and was Chairman of Common Cause, the grassroots citizens lobby founded by John W. Gardner. He now serves on the Advisory Council of J Street, the pro-Israel, pro-peace advocacy group, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Socrates once said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Major General John Borling has taken this to heart as he continues to carve his path of success and strength to this day. A retired US Air Force pilot with a career spanning 37 years, a Vietnam War prisoner, a business chairman of a biotech company, and a weekly column writer, he joins us today to share his advice on dealing with trauma, being an effective and vulnerable leader, and avoiding arrogance and burnout. Want to learn more?

Nonprofit News for the week of 8/16/2021   Earthquake Rattles Haiti, Nonprofits & NGOs Step Up In Shadow of Previous Quake Response A 7.2-magnitude earthquake rattled Haiti over the weekend, a devastating blow for a country already in the midst of a severe political crisis. The quake, the epicenter of which was located west of Port-au-Prince, initially seemed less catastrophic as it occurred in a less densely populated area, but the emergency need still exists. While the last earthquake response generated unprecedented levels of giving (as well as scrutiny of the effectiveness of vast sums raised) the need again exists for disaster response. Major disaster response organizations, like Americares, already have campaigns set up to direct aid. This Massachusetts-based but local Haitian organization is one of many established local organizations that are well-equipped to help communities on the ground. The Chief Executive of the organization, Mission E4, says that "organizations who are not established already, who don't speak the language, who don't already understand the culture, it takes them a lot longer to get up and running,” and would “encourage people to fund organizations who are already there and established.”  Kabul Falls To Taliban, NGO & Activist Progress Set Back With Unprecedented Speed After 20 years of U.S. military presence, the withdrawal of U.S. troops has culminated in chaos as the Taliban has taken control of Kabul, the Afghan capital. After progress on fronts like girls' education, and human rights, the country again faces the rule of the Taliban, with strict, terror-adjacent laws and rules. This Seattle-based nonprofit that operates in Afghanistan is concerned about the safety and well-being of both the girls they've taught and the teachers they've hired. The setback to the organization, Sahar, and others just like might be the tip of the iceberg for NGOs that operate in the region.   Summary To stop another COVID wave, fund the nonprofits that vulnerable Bay Area residents trust USF nonprofit accounting manager steals millions, spends on "adult" website Meet Our 2021 John W. Gardner Leadership Award Recipients – Dr. Gail C. Christopher and Professor john a. powell Begins Monday: Louisiana COVID relief program offering up to $25K to nonprofits, small businesses    

“To be free is to be white, and to be white is to be free. In this reading, therefore, freedom and race are not just enemies but also allies”. That's my guest today, the historian Tyler Stovall on the idea that animates his new book White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea. It was an idea, Tyler says, that “kept him awake at night”. We talk about whether the most important racial line is between white and others, or between Black and others; the startling true history of the Statue of Liberty (“the world's most prominent example of the racialization of modern ideas of freedom”, Tyler says); the controversy surrounding the 1619 Project and specifically the extent to which retaining slavery motivated some of the colonies in the War; the fight over school integration; the use of reason and rationality as gatekeepers to enlightenment ideas of liberalism; the decolonization movement; and the fights over both voting rights and Critical Race Theory; and much more besides. It's a topical conversation but also one that reaches across history. I found this a stimulating and challenging conversation. Tyler Stovall Dr. Tyler Stovall is a lauded historian of modern and twentieth-century France, with a specialization in transnational history, labor, colonialism, and race. His work has covered topics ranging from the suburbs of Paris to Black American expatriates in France and the French Caribbean. He has written numerous books, including the widely-popular “Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light.” This summer, Stovall was appointed as the Dean of Fordham's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Previously, he was the Dean of Humanities at UC-Santa Cruz and served as the President of the American Historical Association from 2017 to 2018. Stovall currently lives in Berkeley, California with his wife Dr. Denise Herd.  More Stovall In this episode, we discussed Stovall's new and thought-provoking book “White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea” He recently wrote an article in The Nation titled “Liberty's Discontents” While serving as President of American Historical Association, Stovall gave an address on “White Freedom and the Lady of Liberty”. You can watch it here.  Also mentioned  Stovall mentioned the book “Men on Horseback”, written  by David Bell  We discussed the iconography of the broken chain on the Statue of Liberty  The hat that was given to former slaves in Ancient Rome is known as a ‘Pileus'  Stovall referred to the famous painting by Delacroix, “Liberty Leading the People” We discussed the New York Times 1619 project which you can learn more about here.  Stovall mentioned Crispus Attucks, an African American man killed during the Boston Massacre and believed to be the first casualty of the American Revolution.  Here's a clip of The Allman Brothers Band performing their song ‘Whipping Post'   We discussed Phyllis Schlafly and her role in opposing the Equal Rights Amendment In On Liberty, J.S. Mill wrote that “Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.” (p. 19)  After WWI ended, Black American soldiers returned home to a violently racist society and were threatened with increasing riots, lynchings, and additional brutality.  Stovall mentioned Julius Nyerere, the former President of Tanzania.  A man in Texas, after waiting in line for hours, now faces a 40-year sentence for voting while on parole.  I referenced Amartya Sen on the concept of meritocracy and its central conflict of who gets to define merit. Read more of his work on this topic here.   In his book, “Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too?”, John W. Gardner writes, “The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” The Dialogues Team Creator: Richard Reeves Research: Ashleigh Maciolek Artwork: George Vaughan Thomas Tech Support: Cameron Hauver-Reeves Music: "Remember" by Bencoolen (thanks for the permission, guys!)

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast! In this episode of The EdUp Experience, sponsored by Claremont Lincoln University, we welcome Dr. Manuelito Biag, Senior Associate, Networked Improvement Science & Dr. David Imig, Senior Fellow, Strategic Initiatives, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching! Listen in as special guest cohost Dr. Stacey Gonzales and Liz talk with Manuelito & David about a range of topics including how the Foundation is working on creating education systems within K-12 & higher education. Manuelito Biag joined the Carnegie Foundation in 2016. As a senior associate, he provides leadership, instructional, and research support in the area of networked improvement science. Currently, he aids the Foundation's field-building efforts in higher education by directing the Improvement Leadership Education and Development (iLEAD) network – a community of 12 district-university partnerships committed to localizing leadership preparation through the use of improvement science principles, methods, and tools. Manuelito comes to Carnegie from Stanford University where he served as senior researcher at the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and their Communities at the Graduate School of Education. His work, which has been presented in community forums, professional conferences, and published in academic journals, policy briefs, and edited volumes, examines the organizational structures, policies, and programs that influence students' learning and overall development—particularly those from vulnerable and historically-marginalized backgrounds. David Imig, PhD, is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and a Professor of the Practice in the College of Education at the University of Maryland. He teaches courses in teacher education policy and practice, school and teacher leadership. A founder of the Carnegie Project on Education Doctorate (CPED), a national organization of some 85 graduate schools of education, he is co-leading an effort at Maryland to transform doctoral education to focus on “expectations, outcomes and achievements” of four professional cohorts of EdD students in large metropolitan school districts in areas surrounding the campus. Thanks so much for tuning in. Join us again next time for another episode! Contact Us! Connect with the hosts - Elvin Freytes, Elizabeth Leiba, and Dr. Joe Sallustio ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us! ● Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thanks for listening! We make education your business!

Milbrey McLauglin, the David Jacks Professor of Education and Public Policy at Stanford University, Emerita, spoke to an emeriti/ae audience on April 22, 2021.She traced her life trajectory through college and an “awakening” of sorts in Kansas City, Missouri, to policy analysis at the RAND Corporation focused on disadvantaged youth, and quite “unintentionally” to a faculty position at Stanford where she was the founding director of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities. Professor McLaughlin discussed several themes in her work helping to identify policies that can improve outcomes for vulnerable urban youth, including “mutual adaptation” by local educators and careful attention to the settings and contexts of both teachers and students. She highlighted the power of well-designed extra-curricular opportunities such as the CYCLE program in Chicago, that allowed youth to overcome hostile conditions in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green public housing project and embark on positive life paths.

“หน้าที่แรกและหน้าที่สุดท้ายของผู้นำ คือการทำให้ความหวังยังคงอยู่” John W. Gardner นักปฏิรูปและผู้นำทางความคิดได้กล่าวไว้ แต่ในโลกที่ทุกอย่างล้วนไม่แน่นอน ผู้นำองค์กร จะรักษาความหวังนี้ได้อย่างไร ? และในสถานการณ์ที่ท้าทายเช่นนี้ ความหวังขนาดไหน จึงจะเรียกว่า “พอดี” ? การมองโลกในแง่ดี หรือ Optimism เป็นส่วนหนึ่งในการสร้างวัฒนธรรมการทำงานเชิงบวก ที่ส่งผลถึงการ Engage พนักงานให้มีไฟและแรงกระตุ้นในการทำงาน ซึ่งเป็นองค์ประกอบสำคัญในการผลักดันองค์กรให้ก้าวข้ามต่างๆ ที่ถาโถมเข้ามาแต่ในสถานการณ์ปัจจุบัน การมองโลกในแง่ดี ช่างเป็นเรื่องที่ยากเย็นเหลือเกิน ความตึงเครียดต่อความไม่แน่นอนที่สะสมมาเป็นเวลานานแล้วนี้ อาจส่งผลให้บุคลากร Burn Out ไปในที่สุด A Cup of Culture ----------- #วัฒนธรรมองค์กร​ #corporateculture​ #culture

In this week's episode, join Tony Flow as he explores the destructive nature of self-pity and how it can be combatted with gratitude. As John W. Gardner put it, "Self-pity is easily the most destructive of non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure, and separates the victim from reality." Join the conversation with Tony Flow as he gathers some inspiration from an Oprah Winfrey quote and provides much more food for thought. Of course, the weekly challenge is brought to the table with an encouraging note. Be inspired and motivated, and learn exactly how to breakthrough self-pity or simply avoid it altogether. Listen in and enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tonyflowpodcast/support

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” -John W. Gardner       Each year a new President of the RESNET board of directors takes the helm.   A President brings their own background and experiences to bear upon the role.   How do decades of experience in building, while documenting millions in construction defects, lead someone to take on a leadership role such as this? John Hensley shares with us the priorities as the 2021 Board President for RESNET.   He first takes us on a journey of his past career experience to shed light on what drove him to become a rater in the first place and why he has decided it is important to take on this role as president.   John also shares how much the blood of construction runs in his family and the changes he has seen over his lifetime in RESNET and in the construction industry in general. Connect with John by email: John@BPSConsultant.com or via his website: www.bpconsultingsolutions.com RESTalk: To the RESNET community, we hear you and want to engage.   Pros can learn more at www.RESNET.us/professional  Consumers can learn more at www.RESNET.us Or for more info on this topic contact RESNET at INFO@RESNET.US

If you enjoy this podcast, consider buying me a coffee: https://adamstoner.com/support These monthly updates are essentially diary entries that I share with you. Behaving as a sort-of time-capsule, these little bulletins have proved to be even more valuable this year, candidly capturing what made 2020 so unique. Here's what I got up to: JANUARY: I started the year by sharing four resolutions; to cut my carbon emissions, visit more museums and galleries, consume food in restaurants instead of taking it away, and to not let technology seep into my home as much. Ha. I achieved the first thanks to a global pandemic that ground me to a halt and spectacularly failed the rest. I'm not even mad about it. FEBRUARY: I launched my podcast and helped launch The Space Programme. I designed some stuff for BBC Radio Gloucestershire's 50 by 50 campaign; presenter Dominic Cotter had turned 49 and was on a quest to do fifty new things – one per week – in the countdown to his 50th. MARCH: 50 by 50 stopped but so did everything else. I stopped commuting, I tried to stop reading the news. I started a daily podcast, Stuck at Home. I remember feeling afraid in March – I think all of us did – but reading my update from that month, it shows a maturity I didn't expect. APRIL: Walks and work. I was versioning Stuck at Home sessions into three; a podcast, a one-hour radio piece, and a bespoke programme for BBC Sounds every day. As a body of work, it might be the thing I'm most proud of so far in my career. MAY: I turned 25. Picked up nominations at British Podcast Awards for The Santa Daily and The Week Junior Show. The best hotel I've ever stayed in – Three Abbey Green (the Lord Nelson Suite was the favourite) – closed its doors. JUNE: Picked up a pair of Maison Margiela shoes. Returned them after realising they were £400. With friends on Discord, I began a Bad Movie Club. I've watched more things this year than any other. We watched Cats. Maybe TIME magazine is correct; perhaps 2020 was the ‘Worst Year Ever'? JULY: 106 episodes of Stuck at Home later, it becomes Activity Quest. I play on high-ropes courses, go rock-climbing, head on long forest walks, visit zoos, and chat to some incredible and inspiring people. Childhood dream of becoming a Blue Peter presenter basically achieved. AUGUST: Began eating better thanks to Abel and Cole. Ate strawberries on the floor in my underwear in sweltering 32º heat. Played in the rain like a Hollywood movie when the heat finally broke. We sold our family home of 20-something years and I loaded everything I owned into boxes. SEPTEMBER: We moved, I took two weeks off work. We had no internet connection which, as someone who works-from-home in the middle of a work-from-home revolution, was a problem. We were in the middle-of-nowhere, surrounded by nothing but countryside. Bathed a lot. Walked even more. OCTOBER: I stood underneath the Earth for 30 minutes. I walked Gloucestershire's May Hill, I walked White Horse Hill, I walked a tiny portion of Ridgeway. I spent the month in nature. I left Twitter. I recorded more for Activity Quest this month than any other. I watched loads of TV from Criminal to 60 Days In. NOVEMBER: Like the rest of the nation, I slowed down as we entered a second lockdown. I got a new phone, I got an Apple Watch, I got a lot of Uber Eats. That resolution's truly out the window now. Oh well. I checked the price of Bitcoin and kicked myself for getting rid of my investment earlier than I should have done. Oh well! This past month, I went into London for the first time since March. Saw work-friends in the flesh for a mere 16 minutes. Had a Zoom Christmas party. Listened to lots of Taylor Swift, Sir Paul McCartney. Watched the season change around me as I reflected on the year and myself. The global effects of COVID-19 are undoubtedly devastating and this year has been tough for many. Never has a humble trip around the sun been so derided. 2020 felt like a never-ending churn of catastrophes for much of the year but it wasn't until I slowed down that I took stock of what I mad managed to achieve. 2020 was the year that: My four-hour round-trip commute no longer consumed a healthy percentage of my time or paycheque. I managed to get out and adventure more than ever before despite two national lockdowns that shuttered nearly everything. The world shrank as I both spoke to more people but also had a healthier relationship with the social internet. I started to really enjoy and take pride in the work I was making. I spent not an insignificant amount of time around people I love for the first time in almost half-a-decade. I realise how very fortunate I am to consider the only downside of 2020 lockdown hair that would rival the frontman of an 80s pop group. I am grateful for that. And so here we are… a day away from 2021 and another trip around the sun. The New Year is always dangerous. It provides an imaginary finish line. Most leaders have reached this imaginary finish line short of ideas on what to do next. With the UK's transition period for exiting the European Union ending at the stroke of midnight, with the vast majority of the UK population still to vaccinate, with more contagious forms of coronavirus undoubtedly making their way through families post-Christmas, and with uncertainty on what modern commerce looks like in a world of Zoom calls and same-day home-delivery, the reality is that we're not even out of the starting gates yet. Together, we've clocked that a subtle economic, ecological and social rebalancing needs to take place; it falls on civilians to rethink the way we operated and to turn the ashes of our old world into something new. Mulling over the changes to come, I am reminded of a poster sat on the wall of my secondary school classroom. It featured a quote from John W. Gardner who served under US President Lyndon Johnson. History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable. If we're ever going to see the change we want, 2021 is the time to push for it. Ready for the real challenge? See you next year.

An interview with conductor, clarinetist, pianist, improviser, composer, and my former boss, Teddy Abrams, music director of the Louisville Orchestra and the Britt Festival in Oregon. We discuss the roots of his eclecticism, his vision for the future of orchestras, and how music can be a driving force for positive change in a community.   Highlights Teddy’s background - 8:29 Listening to music at home - 9:05 His awakening - 11:26 Learning about composers - 14:51 How he became a Jazz pianist - 18:20 Learning so much - 26:46 The DNA of an orchestra - 29:06 We should all be learning - 30:34 Activating our individuality - 31:33 How people experience music - 42:58 Being the creative people for your organization - 49:51 Conservatories and audition process - 52:06 Playing an invisible game - 59:20 Training for musicians - 1:10:19 Accessibility to our music - 1:19:54 One of his favorite experiences during the pandemic - 1:21:00 Talking about religion and journalism - 1:31:56 Creating a culture that retains talent - 1:44:03 We should have an aspiration of greatness - 1:45:42 An idea of what an orchestra is - 1:49:48 Music brings people together - 1:51:50   Episode Resources Connect with Robert Hunt Simonds: roberthuntsimonds@gmail.com  http://roberthuntsimonds.com/ http://craigwagnermusic.blogspot.com  Connect with Teddy Abrams https://www.teddyabrams.com  https://twitter.com/teddyconducts?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://www.instagram.com/teddyconducts/?hl=en  https://www.facebook.com/teddyconducts  Teddy, Jim James, and LO musicians on The Tonight Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFYutf2VSqI  "Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?" by John W. Gardner: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XG5CDZF/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser" - John W. Gardner

On this episode of The Alliance Activity podcast, Andy Albright comes to you live from his home in Treasure Island, Fla. to talk about the importance of recognizing opportunity.  What is Opportunity? "When a set of conditions or circumstances are favorable for you to make a move or take advantage of an offer." Recognize the Conditions: Stop thinking as a survivor (victim) and start acting as a thriver (chooser).  Accept as favorable: Stop waiting on a sign (the perfect storm) and start being your own miracle (take initiative). Move on the advantage: Stop thinking that something should happen (wish as a strategy) and start acting on what is happening (realism as a strategy). Four Reasons Why People Don't Recognize Opportunity: 1. Letting your past haunt your present 2. Ignoring the potential of the present 3. Using your willpower to manage stress 4. Not able to focus on the future 1. Letting Your Past Haunt Your Present Antidote Quote: "Great moments are born with great opportunity." -- Herb Brooks Moral: Start letting your future be bigger than your present. But in order to embrace that future, one must let go of the past by utilizing the power of urgency which exists in the moment. 2. Ignoring The Potential Of The Present Antidote Quote: "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." --Thomas Edison Moral: People can't see the present as an opportunity because they only view it as a day separating yesterday from tomorrow. Seeing today as an opportunity requires one to stop reminiscing about the past, and stop fantasizing about the future. Instead, people need to start working with an intentional focus about the 24 hours called the present. Fearing today is only a reason to not work. 3. Using Your Willingness To Manage Stress Antidote Quote: "Luck is when opportunity meets preparedness." --Roman Philosopher Seneca Moral: It is important to stop using all your willpower to manage stress, but rather, saving most of it to use for maintaining your discipline. Luck doesn't happen when you are waiting around on opportunity to show up, but instead, it appears after you have prepared for its arrival. This preparedness comes from the great discipline to master the mundane. Implementing this as a routine, puts you in a position to take advantage of opportunity. 4. Not Able To Focus On The Future Antidote Quote: "We are all faced with great opportunity disguised as impossible situations." --John W. Gardner Moral: Stop waiting for opportunity to Feel right. Instead, let your Do control your discipline. Doing your way into a feel requires more will than confidence. Every situation doesn't have to feel doable, but rather, every situation should be viewed as being doable. Two Things Happen When You Miss The Opportunity 1. Doubt sets in and the lack of confidence from your uncertainty causes you to ask: Why bother? ----> Code for: Life IS Tough. How can I trust again? ----> Code for: People ARE Cruel. Who am I fooling? ----> Code for: I AM Depressed. 2. Procrastination becomes the norm and your excuse for lack of initiative causes you to say: If I wasn't so tired ----> Code for: I have no energy But I'm not ready ----> Code for: I hav no purpose When I find the time ----> Code for I have no belief www.AndyAlbright.com @AndySAlbright www.NAALeads.com @NationalAgentsAlliance @NAALeadsTheWay #TheAlliance #DoTheDo #N247RU

In this episode, Kristina and Ben discuss the latest headlines and how upcoming impeachment hearings may impact how quickly nonprofit policy issues move through Congress. They also sit with Sherry Salway Black, long-time advocate and champion for Native American communities’ self-determination, asset building, community investment, and cultural revitalization. The 2019 John W. Gardner Leadership Award recipient also discusses what she’s looking forward to at Upswell, our upcoming annual gathering in Chicago, where she will accept the award. About the Podcast Voices for Good is Independent Sector’s policy podcast for nonprofits, foundations, and anyone advancing the common good.

This is Kelly Orchard’s Apple A Day. Sixty Seconds on wisdom, success and personal growth. The Power of No is helping improve lives! Today, let’s say “no” to being a victim! It’s time for you to break free from that victim mentality! American Author John W. Gardner wrote, “Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.” I often see a lot of ‘victimization’ when working with clients. The need to blame others for our lives not working; feeling as though we have no choice about the direction our life has taken; allowing someone else to bully us into feeling as though we are powerless. It’s time for you to just say NO to being a so-called victim. Stop allowing other people or circumstances have your power. Nobody is that powerful! Say no to that victim mentality by: - Giving yourself a break - Practicing Gratitude - Accepting what “is” - Taking responsibility for your own life Move yourself into a season of positive growth by just saying no to being a victim! This has been Kelly Orchard’s Apple A Day… Now, go out and be fruitful! Kelly Orchard's Apple A Day is also available in print. Click here for more!

"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well." - John W. Gardner This message explores how we can have success in all of life's battles through a consistent, daily walk with the Lord.

In this episode I start this talk about the current socio-politcal debate on individual rights, free speech, globalism. I then go into some ideas from Jung about the process of Individuation as he termed it, and compare it to the founding principles of western civilzation and America at its birth. I attempt to bring it all back to the healthy development of the individual in society, comparing with the likes of Tesla, Jobs, Bruce Lee, and many other influentail world changers. Given the current discusion happening in the media and in academia these days, I break down the quote from John W. Gardner:  "The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept."and discuss the idea expressed here and how important it is to pursue a path of self realization and individuation in our increasingly collectivised/globalised world. Article Links:  Individualism vs. Collectivism: Our Future, Our ChoiceA Beginner’s Guide to Carl Jung’s Individuation Process: A Map for Integrating Your PsycheJung and his Individuation Process Individualism Explained          

Dr. Jesse Green is one cool character. He's the only person I know that's spent a week with Richard Branson on his private island in the British Virgin Islands, and in addition to this he's a best-selling author, entrepreneur, thought leader in dental management, business coach and the host of a very successful podcast called The Savvy Dentist.  In this episode we discuss: The Recovery Paradox Why some days you don't always project the best version of yourself, which can often be embarrassing.  However people forgive mistakes and errors if you handle it the right way. This is The Recovery Paradox.  If you handle a problem the right way, your clients and customers will become more loyal.  When you meet someone you never know what's been going on in their life, so you must make allowances for poor behaviour, especially when you know it's out of character.  When a problem occurs and if it's handled correctly, the incidence itself is long forgotten, but the recovery will be remembered for a very long time.   When you have a bad day at work, you need to learn to not take it home, and visa versa.  The Savvy Dentist Podcast - where great business meets great dentistry.  It's important to take ideas from other professions and apply it back to your own profession or industry.  This is why listening to podcasts outside of your industry is so important.  Book Recommendation: Not Invented Here - Cross Industry Innovation.  Accountability You need to have strong accountability partners.  You need to have commitment and consistency in everything that you do. "Just getting started is the hard part". - Jocko Willink.  Jesse will have his second book written by the end of 2017, that's his commitment to you.  It's all about creating good daily habits.  "Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinary well". - John W. Gardner. Richard Branson Meeting - Jesse's Takeaways: THINK BIGGER. Richard Branson never thinks small. You've got to look at things in a big way.  Don't overthink yourself, it slows down your progress.  Look at getting yourself out of your business as early as possible without going broke. Delegate far more than you already do.  Here's the biggest message - ASK WHO, NOT HOW: When you're faced with a new challenge or idea, don't ask HOW to resolve or do it, instead ask WHO can resolve it. This is a different question and therefore giving you a different outcome.  To learn more, check out Dr. Jesse Green's Website and tune his weekly podcast show The Savvy Dentist.  If you have any question please feel free to email me directly at tf@tysonfranklin.com My latest book It’s No Secret There’s Money In Small Business is now available from all online booksellers, and if you live in Australia it can be ordered from most bookstores. Also, Book Depository deliver freight FREE worldwide.

REFLECTION QUOTES “Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.” ~Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French mathematician and thinker “The ordinary is divine.” ~Cynthia Ozick, American short story writer, novelist and essayists “Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.” ~John W. Gardner (1912-2002), Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson “There are no ordinary moments.” ~Dan Millman, American author and lecturer “We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.” ~Daniel Boorstin (1914-2004), historian at the University of Chicago “You can destroy freedom as much by abusing it as you can be taking it away.” ~Attributed to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh “Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.” ~Albert Camus (1913-1960), French philosopher and writer “The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.” ~Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst “You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.” ~Augustine of Hippo (354-430), Christian theologian and philosophe SERMON PASSAGE Mark 1:9-20 (ESV) 9 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 10 And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 11 And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.” 12 The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. 13 And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him. 14 Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, 15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.” 16 Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 17 And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” 18 And immediately they left their nets and followed him. 19 And going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who were in their boat mending the nets. 20 And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants and followed him.

Can extraordinary innovation happen in ordinary organizations? Yes, if you know how. In his latest book, Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways, Bill Taylor shines a spotlight on innovation in organizations such as banks, fast-food joints, and nonprofits. And he shares how they do it. Co-founder of Fast Company and bestselling author of the books, Practically Radical and Mavericks at Work, Bill has written for the NYTimes, the Guardian, and Harvard Business Review, and he blogs regularly for HBR. In this interview, he talks about: How Silicon Valley companies make up less than 10 percent of businesses How having a compelling lighthouse identity helps ordinary organizations stand out The 4 key elements of a lighthouse identity What it looks like when innovation meets the ordinary world of banking The fact that we want to do business with companies and brands that are fun Why being ordinary is not an option for every day organizations How an investor seeks out missionary over mercenary businesses The role teaching and psychology play in a fast-food standout What happens when leaders read and discuss books together Why an every day company requires its leaders to teach What it looks like when company expansion is driven by employee growth How big and rapid growth can decrease what makes a young organization so special The incredible role thought leadership plays in extraordinary organizations What Bill learned by spending a training day with employees from Quicken Loans How being bold, exciting and compelling in the marketplace requires we be that way in the workplace How the most successful organizations prioritize ideas and people Steps experts can take to see their work with fresh eyes What jazz can teach leaders about provocative competence What it takes to find our next ideas and why that is more important than ever How a wildly successful company prioritized learning to get unstuck Needing to ask: When is the last time you did something for the first time? Why we need to spend less time being interesting and more time being interested How being interested is about seeking out big ideas and small sources of inspiration Needing to ask: Am I learning as fast as the world is changing? Why the future is shaped by tough-minded optimists The importance of asking how to help more people benefit from the wealth of the few Links to Topics Mentioned in this Podcast @williamctaylor https://williamctaylor.com/ Metro Banks Willy Wonka John Doerr of KPKB Pals Sudden Service Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award The Art of Sun Tzu The Innovation Formula by Amantha Imber Quicken Loans and Dan Gilbert Rosanne Haggerty and Community Solutions MacArthur Fellows Program Robert Wennett WD-40 John W. Gardner If you enjoy the podcast, please rate and review it on iTunes - your ratings make all the difference. For automatic delivery of new episodes, be sure to subscribe. As always, thanks for listening! Thank you to Emmy-award-winning Creative Director Vanida Vae for designing the Curious Minds logo, and thank you to Rob Mancabelli for all of his production expertise! www.gayleallen.net LinkedIn @GAllenTC

“If it’s never our fault, we can’t take responsibility for it. If we can’t take responsibility for it, we’ll always be its victim.” Richard Bach “Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.” John W. Gardner One big problem a lot of people have is that they slip into thinking of themselves as victims that have little or no control over their lives.   Victim mentality is an acquired (learned) personality trait in which a person tends to regard him or herself as a victim of the negative actions of another, and to think, speak and act as if that were the case — even in the absence of clear evidence. A victim mentality is one where you blame everyone else for what happens in your world. You may come to believe that you are destined to struggle.   Victims of victim mentality have the illusion that they are constantly under attack from the universe, but only because of the way they choose to digest the things life throws them. They seem to sulk and even marinate in their misery, failing to realize that with a slight shift of thinking, everything can change. Can a theological view make one take on this kind of victim mentality? Does the hard determinism of Phil Johnson, John Hendryx and other proponents of the compatiblistic worldview promote a victim mentality, even if unintentionally? What are the practical implications of adopting determinism? Are we victims of God's decrees? Join the discussion at www.soteriology101.com

A panel of national leaders reflects on the legacy of John W. Gardner at a forum marking the 100th anniversary of his birth. (October 6, 2012)

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