Comments on: You are better than you think you are http://propeople.diseco.com/2010/02/give-yourself-the-gift-of-a-positive-culture/ Human Resource Blog Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:03:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Ralph Dise http://propeople.diseco.com/2010/02/give-yourself-the-gift-of-a-positive-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Ralph Dise Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:27:26 +0000 http://propeople.diseco.com/?p=134#comment-149 Whitney, thanks for your comments. Here's a bit of my personal experience: 1. The first day of Leadership Cleveland in September of 2002, I thought I was the dumb kid placed in the advanced class by mistake. Turns out just about everyone else felt the same! 2. This October the first day of Leading the Professional Service Firm, a week long class at Harvard Business School, I thought I was the dumb kid placed in the advanced class by mistake. Turns out just about everyone else felt the same! Nothing for me has really changed in eight years. Whitney, thanks for your comments. Here’s a bit of my personal experience: 1. The first day of Leadership Cleveland in September of 2002, I thought I was the dumb kid placed in the advanced class by mistake. Turns out just about everyone else felt the same! 2. This October the first day of Leading the Professional Service Firm, a week long class at Harvard Business School, I thought I was the dumb kid placed in the advanced class by mistake. Turns out just about everyone else felt the same!

Nothing for me has really changed in eight years.

]]> By: Whitney Bohan http://propeople.diseco.com/2010/02/give-yourself-the-gift-of-a-positive-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Whitney Bohan Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:30:29 +0000 http://propeople.diseco.com/?p=134#comment-148 A great article on a subject not often tackled. Research shows that women, in particular, put themselves in the "feel like a fraud" category. It is a coincidence that you mention James Howard Kunstler -- I had the pleasure of meeting him in Cleveland when the "Geography of Nowhere" was released. Sitting next to me at his presentation was an accomplished woman, married (then) to a still-famous Ohioan. I remember feeling that she was the "real deal" -- an aspirational model -- was I impressed or intimidated? The subsequent (and unfortunate) public account of her divorce revealed very human flaws (on both sides). For me, it was tangible evidence of what your article reminds us, but with a slightly different take: allow yourself to be human -- we all have more in common than we think at any given moment. Understand this and use it to lead well. A great article on a subject not often tackled. Research shows that women, in particular, put themselves in the “feel like a fraud” category. It is a coincidence that you mention James Howard Kunstler — I had the pleasure of meeting him in Cleveland when the “Geography of Nowhere” was released. Sitting next to me at his presentation was an accomplished woman, married (then) to a still-famous Ohioan. I remember feeling that she was the “real deal” — an aspirational model — was I impressed or intimidated? The subsequent (and unfortunate) public account of her divorce revealed very human flaws (on both sides). For me, it was tangible evidence of what your article reminds us, but with a slightly different take: allow yourself to be human — we all have more in common than we think at any given moment. Understand this and use it to lead well.

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