Category: Mentoring

Earl R. Smith II, PhD Chief@Dr-Smith.info  www.Dr-Smith.info I will freely admit that I enjoy my mentoring practice. Whether it is leadership mentoring, executive mentoring, organizational mentoring, life mentoring or just mentoring, the…

Earl Smith The manufactured content world is full of lists. Some time ago, somebody wrote that the most effective way to generate content is to produce a-how to list. And…

Earl R. Smith II, PhDChief@Dr-Smith.infoDr-Smith.info ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The human tendency to label – and call the label the meaning of the thing – can prevent us from experiencing the world as…

We are not who we say we are. We are who others say we are. Your reflection in the eyes of those who have come to know you is always…

Earl R. Smith II. PhDChief@Dr-Smith.infoDr-Smith.info Like most such observations, the title of this chapter is subject to misunderstanding. I suppose it is inevitable that some readers might take the easy…

Earl R Smith II, PhDChief@Dr-Smith.infoDr-Smith.info There is a sea change going on among Millennials and Generation Z. The rest of us should pay close attention to it. The Harvard University…

Earl R. Smith II. PhDChief@Dr-Smith.infoDr-Smith.info Over the years, I’ve noticed two different perspectives on life when it comes to dealing with change. In the first case, life is seen either…

Earl R. Smith II. PhDChief@Dr-Smith.infoDr-Smith.info It’s a common human reaction. Dissatisfaction with the way things are often leads to a determination to make them better. The idea that tomorrow may…

Earl R Smith II, PhDChief@Dr-Smith.infoDr-Smith.info Leadership mentoring can make a huge difference in the career prospects of an up-and-coming executive. The delays and risks of learning by experience – by…

Earl R Smith II, PhDChief@Dr-Smith.infoDr-Smith.info Realization often takes more time because ego and hubris interfere. Presumption is a challenging adversary when it is self-deployed. In an effort to avoid the…

Earl R. Smith II. PhDChief@Dr-Smith.infoDr-Smith.info It is occasionally amusing to read comments that seem to assiduously avoid the focus of a posting in order to vent some personal suspicion of…

Earl R Smith II, PhDChief@Dr-Smith.infoDr-Smith.info According to many modernist social theorists, questions of identity center on an ‘authentic knowledge’ of the ‘self’ and of the shelves of others. It was…

Curiosity is an amazing trait. In fact, I admit to being intensely curious about curiosity. But then those of you who have read much of my writings will know that…

and it is almost always wrong. The structure of simpleminded solutions is always the same. Massive amounts of reality are sheared away, complexity ignored, subtlety abhorred and the principal project…

Finding your path is a truly life-changing experience. Life is no longer uncertainty – your connection between living and your purpose in life goes with you every day. When you…

This volume is written as a series of ‘thinking pieces’ that are to serve as points of meditation on important matters. Think of them as rocks leading to the shore.…

My mentoring practice frequently brings me into contact with people with huge amounts of untapped potential who are being stymied by self-limiting behavior. Over the years probably two-thirds of my…

I have been thinking back some recent discussions about the fate of the world and human society. Those ruminations led me to revisit a book by Marshal McLuhan I read…