Lodestar Universal
  • Leadership
  • Executive Coaching
  • CEO
  • Current Affairs
  • Strategic Thinking

Month: January 2009

Gigapan.org

January 25, 2009 alexAdmin Current Affairs, Leadership, Science, Web/Tech

Gigapan.org is worth a few minutes of your time. Especially for the purposes of this column, being a reflection on leadership, it inspires the imagination. When you open it, you will see an enormous long-shot panorama of the inauguration. Impressive, but it is when you zoom in, with exceptional clarity, to any detail, that you […]

Continue reading


The Lime Tree, Making Limeade Out of Sour Stuff

January 18, 2009 alexAdmin Communication, Executive Coaching

        When I stepped onto my front porch today, a miniature lime tree greeted me.  Tiny white blossoms were laced among its deep green leaves, and elfin-sized limes drooped from the branches.  A thank-you gift from my friend Judy. We had lunch a week ago where she asked my advice about a difficult conversation […]

Continue reading


The Lady Yoda: An Unexpected Black Belt

January 12, 2009 alexAdmin Current Affairs, Executive Coaching, Sports

    She’s a sixth degree black belt, weighs in at about 92 pounds and is a petite 5’2″ tall. And that’s not the cool part. What goes on in her head, her philosophy about life, as she teaches the (mostly) men students she works with, that’s the cool part.  Meet the strikingly attractive Aikido master […]

Continue reading


“Matress” is a Game That Gets Old Fast

January 6, 2009 alexAdmin Uncategorized

Remember those days when “all” the economic news was cheery? Remember when you felt like everybody “else” was making tons of money? From the hedge fund to the venture capital clicks, if you weren’t an insider, at least, you could put your money in the market and feel like a player. Money was flying faster […]

Continue reading


Re-Solution for 2009

January 4, 2009 alexAdmin CEO, Current Affairs, Leadership

Happy New Year, and this is going to be short: Stop looking at the idea of a New Year’s resolution as being another promise that you break. Instead, look at resolution by breaking the word down into its parts. You, your business, and I all need new solutions for the coming year. New ways of […]

Continue reading


Alex B. Ramsey

Recent Posts

  • Trust Crashing: An Unintended Consequence of Social Media
  • Is “Being Present” Overrated?
  • Why Leadership Mojo?
  • Can You “Teach” How to Grow A Company?
  • Life Passages: The Ages and Stages Don’t Ever Stop

Archives

  • March 2017
  • January 2016
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • April 2011
  • December 2010
  • October 2010
  • August 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008

Categories

  • Becoming Indispensable
  • Books
  • CEO
  • Communication
  • Current Affairs
  • Customer Service for Leaders
  • Economics
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Executive Coaching
  • Featured Slider
  • Film
  • Food and Drink
  • Games
  • Leadership
  • Problem Solving
  • Sales
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Television
  • Travel
  • Uncategorized
  • Web/Tech
  • Weblogs
  • Sitemap
  • Privacy Policy
The Thinking Leader's Blog for Moxie and Thought Leadership by Alex B. Ramsey, President of LodeStar Universal