Book - Being Zen by Ezra Bayda

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Listening and Questioning

Mentoring primarily involves listening to what the other person is saying to pick out what they are most concerned about. Getting them to open up to you takes time and empathy.  Expressing empathy is saying "Hmmm, interesting, tell me more about that."  then the next time you talk to them, you pick up right where you left off by asking them about what seemed to be an emotional trigger for them in the prior meeting.  Maybe their mother or school or work or some thing else but it will probably always come down to a problem with relationships.  Listening to another person's issues is one of the most valuable things a mentor can do.

Why?

The goal is to work with people who believe what you believe. Those who lead are the ones we follow for ourselves because we believe what they believe.

Job Fair at PSU

Portland State University Career Fair Date:
February 16, 2011 (11:00AM - 3:00PM)
Location:
Smith Memorial Student Union--3rd floor Ballroom
Overview:
Plan to attend the 23rd annual PSU Career Information Day on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 from 11:00am to 3:00 pm.

Intuition

Intuition is fast, uncontrolled, and, most importantly, effortless. Computation, on the other hand, is slow, governed by strict rules, and requires tremendous effort.

Leadership

One of the key things a leader does is to implement procedures, processes, goals, objectives, mission statements, vision statements by getting alignment up and down the organization and measuring continuously to compare results with the strategy set in place.  Getting to be #1 at anything is difficult: being #1 in the nation in football like the UofO is amazing.

Another example is NE Portland Concordia University is #1 in the number of students participating in community service, as well as the number of service hours performed, both relative to school size.

Both of these accomplishments required sustained leadership over time to align individual results with the overall strategy for the organization.

Leadership

The same lack of leadership teaching English as a second language is also rooted in the math education.
Instead of teaching calculating schools should be teaching real world problem analysis, methods of converting problems to math formulas, then let the computer do the calculating, convert the results back into real world descriptions and finally verify and validate the results.  Just like we do in the real world.