Sunday, October 06, 2013

We Cannot Stop Talking

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I’m fresh back from CONSTRUCT 2013 and the CSI National Convention held last week in Nashville. This marks the 9 th time I have attended ...
Friday, September 20, 2013

If I hadn't Jioined CSI

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On the eve on CONSTRUCT 2013 and the CSI National Convention in Nashville, I decided to reprise a piece I wrote for the Felt Tips blog our c...
Sunday, August 04, 2013

It's Your Network: Build It, Nurture It, Use It

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One of the most important aspects of your professional life is your professional network. Creation of a large and varied professional netwo...
Monday, July 08, 2013

Education Opportunities at CONSTRUCT

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I've been attending the CSI National Convention since the 2001 convention in Dallas. That was a convenient trip as my parents live in D...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

More Accidental Leadership

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Since my last post on this blog, I've encountered more accidental leadership. For the past four fiscal years, I've served as Chapte...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

Its March and how time has flown by

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The title says it all - I can't believe it is actually March 2010 already! The health of our chapter president continues to decline. He ...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

Status Update

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My intention to blog after each monthly meeting fell by the wayside in the madness that tends to be fall in our household. The health of our...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

The Whispers....

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The whispers have begun. By that I mean, each time our president doesn’t immediately respond to an email, a handful of leaders begin to send...
Sunday, August 09, 2009

Leadership Styles

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Our president's leadership style is becoming more and more apparent. He's a hands-off, let-the-committees-run-the-chapter style of l...
Friday, July 10, 2009

A Brave New World

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That's one of my favorite novels - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. It seems apt to something that a group of us are going through. My ...
Sunday, February 15, 2009

Touch 'em All!

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Since the New Year's Day post, some things about the cub scout pack have come into clear focus. I really like my den, even though 2 of t...
Thursday, January 01, 2009

Took a year off!

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Clearly, I took a year off from this blog. I'll try to do better in 2009! I'm actually in a slightly different leadership role - I...
Saturday, January 12, 2008

President's Guide Part 2

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Its been 3 months almost to the day since I wrote the last post. I am now within sight of the end of my Presidency. I just presided over my ...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

President's Guide

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Out Chapter is thin on passing information from one leader to the next. I think its partly the fact that we have some relatively young leade...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Awards

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When I was young, my parents were in Jaycees & Jaycettes - the Junior Chamber of Commerce. This was the 1970's when it was acceptabl...
Saturday, August 25, 2007

Thinking about the recent past....

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What has happened in our Chapter since I joined in 2000? We used to meet at Club 4100 in Brooklyn, MD, immediately south of downtown Baltimo...

50th Anniversary

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I haven't posted in a while, but have some issues that might need to be worked out here. In 2009, our CSI Chapter will celebrate its 50t...
Monday, February 19, 2007

Personalities

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I think I've said this before - I am blessed with a leadership team that genuinely likes each other. I've spoken with people from ot...
Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Diversity Part 2

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What should the message about diversity be? I mean, we need to recruit some leaders, because we currently have basically myself & the 1s...
Thursday, November 02, 2006

Head Start on Dec

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My presidency has been marked by a mad dash to make the "President's Message" shoot out quickly so the newsletter can be sent ...