Category Archives: Listening

Jeff Immelt’s Top Lessons

The top lessons Jeff Immelt says he learned over the last year are: 1. Be incredibly open 2. Be an aggressive listener 3. Develop a business model that works in the worst case scenario Immelt’s top goals for America in the next decade: 1. Energy security by 2020 2. Be net exporter within a decade 3. Renewal of American leadership Watch the conversation with Charlie...

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Make Your Learning Compelling

Make your learning compelling. Make it compelling for you. You are the first listener and student of your teachings. When you listen well, the rest of the world wants to come and listen too. A great Rabi once said “we tell stories to our children to put them to sleep. We tell stories to adults to wake them up.” In our leadership seminars and retreats...

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Update Yourself

Today is 08.08.08. It is Sara’s birthday. Thank you for being here. This is a good day for a UY celebration. What’s a UY celebration? UY stands for Update Yourself. I feel like updating myself today. The beauty of a UY celebration is that you can choose to have it any day of the year. It doesn’t have to be a national holiday. You can...

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The Greatest Act Of Generosity

Your living presence is the most precious thing you have. Take it away and you take life itself away. All the things you own won’t mean a thing when you are gone. What then is the greatest act of generosity? It is offering your presence, unreservedly. Giving your mindful presence to another human being is the most precious gift you can give. Offering your full...

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Listen To Your Instinct

Sometimes you get up in the morning and something in you knows that there was a shift – that the season has changed. Still, you put on your shorts and head out for the day. Your body feels the chill but you are full of your projections and plans and too preoccupied to notice and hear the cues coming from inside. The same happens in...

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