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Turning Potential Into Results

Want success? Embrace failure.

By Camille Smith / August 16, 2012

It bugs me when someone shouts “Failure is not an option!”  The icing on the buggy cake comes if their declaration is punctuated with teeth-grinding and fist-clenching. Sure, I hear their determination and desire that they must succeed, no matter what, come hell or high-water, or no water at all, if that’s the case.  Still,…

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Who will you invite into the room?

By Camille Smith / October 13, 2011

Remember the old TV game show $100,000 Pyramid hosted by Dick Clark? Players attempted to guess a category from the descriptions given by their teammate. Let’s play! Here are my descriptions: a college sorority reunion, a women’s retreat, a high school reunion, the Global Women’s Leadership Network (www.gwln.org). If you answered “women-only events”, you’d hear…

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What’s it gonna take to get what I want? 244 days + perseverance!

By Camille Smith / June 22, 2011

When something’s not happening the way we want it to, when what we get is not what we asked for, when someone promises something and doesn’t deliver … argh … what will it take to make this happen? My answer isn’t the entire answer, it’s a start. It will take a blend of 5 elements…

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Are you measuring the past or the future?

By Camille Smith / September 2, 2010

What you have your attention on gets attended to. Peter Drucker reminds us: “People think they measure what they get. In fact, they get what they measure.” What are your measures getting you?  Are the numbers numbing your staff or inspiring innovation?  Do the measures maintain a comfortable zone or create the possibility for the…

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How to drink the future from a fire hose: Don’t defend. Open wide.

By Camille Smith / August 16, 2010

I admit it. I am a “people-r-great” geek.  Most everything I read, hear and watch filters through my coaching lens: How can this help someone be a strong, creative leader in uncertain times?  How will this have someone see she has a choice and that there’s an alternative to feeling victimized?  How can this shed…

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Shushing is Passé. Speaking Up is In.

By Camille Smith / February 1, 2010

Letter to editor SJ Mercury News re: article published Jan 25, 2010.  “Kudos to AMC Cupertino Square 16 for giving autistic kids and parents an opportunity to enjoy watching movies. You set a great example of how to appropriately alter rules (let them talk during the movie, stand up, even touch the screen) to create…

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