How an early-career assignment taught me that reliability, initiative, and trust are built one decision at a time. A Request Outside My Role Early in my career, while my manager was travelling, I received a message through a business contact at another organization. I was asked to arrange a cheque for an approved payment worthContinue reading “When “It’s Not My Job” Becomes a Career-Limiting Mindset”
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Lessons Learned from my Mother’s Bad Behaviour
Conventional wisdom tells us that children learn from the good example of their parents. But something went haywire when my mother misbehaved in the office of the Prime Minister. She defied the leadership of the Jamaica Civil Service Association by raising a topic that was not on the agenda in a meeting with the PrimeContinue reading “Lessons Learned from my Mother’s Bad Behaviour”
What is YOUR Dharma?
Throughout his life, my father was a teacher, even though he didn’t spend all his years in the classroom. High school and university students, business people, social workers and children in foster care all benefited in one way or another from his knowledge of physics, mathematics, human resources and guidance counselling. In the last tenContinue reading “What is YOUR Dharma?”