Friends, Welcome to my sixth quarterly newsletter. In my first newsletter, I wrote about kindness and leadership. My contention was that “kindness and altruism lead to more effective leadership and organization effectiveness.” In this newsletter, I want to take…
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Friends, Welcome to the fifth quarterly newsletter from White Pine Mountain, LLC. As most of you know, the subject of “happiness,” as defined by the science of Positive Psychology, has been a key focus of mine for the past 10+…
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Friends, Welcome to my 4th quarterly newsletter. Having recently returned from leading a one week course at Canyon Ranch’s Life Enhancement Center in Tucson, AZ entitled “Encore: Flourishing in the 2nd Half of Life,” I thought I would use this…
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Friends, Welcome to my third newsletter. In this one I want to share thoughts on how to deal with setbacks in life, or how one might develop greater grit or resilience. There are four possibilities when we face a crisis…
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By Joshua Wolf Shenk This is an excellent book about Lincoln’s depression. The principle lesson is one of wholeness, about integration…that we cannot understand another person without seeing the whole being, the whole person, the whole or integrated life. While President…
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by Donald Miller Summary Notes by Doug Smith Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who wants a Volvo. But we spend years living those stories and expect our lives to feel meaningful. The truth is,…
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Friends, Welcome to my second quarterly newsletter. In the last newsletter, I dealt with the role that being altruistic/kind plays in effective leadership. I would like to stay with the leadership subject in this newsletter by providing a definition and…
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Everything You Need to Know to Put Your EQ to Work By Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves (Notes from the journal of Douglas A Smith) “Our civilization is still in the middle stage, scarcely beast in that it is…
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Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillian and Al Switzer Forward by Stephen Covey This is a breakthrough book There are a few defining moments in our life that make all the difference. Many of these moments come from “crucial conversations”…
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by Patrick Lencioni Summary Notes by Doug Smith [Words in this type of parenthesis are my thoughts, not necessarily the authors.] Teamwork begins with trust and trust requires overcoming our desire for “invulnerability”. Trust occurs when people feel they can…
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