We had a really interesting discussion yesterday on the article How the world’s most successful founders approach failure and my take-away message is simple, yet somewhat profound:Blaming is the Opposite of Learning from ExperienceWhen we fail at something, whether it...
Article Discussion Starters for “How the World’s Most Successful Founders Approach Failure” Here are some discussion questions to help us frame today’s article discussion on “How the world’s most successful founders approach failure”...
Do you read articles, watch TED Talks, or listen to podcasts on Coaching or Personal Empowerment and wish you have others to talk with them about in real time to share insights, ideas, or experiences about them?Here is your chance!The second of the planned January...
Come celebrate Wikipedia Day with me this Sunday at the Ace Hotel right here in New York City. Details about how we at Wikimedia NYC are celebrating this in a New York way can be found here (including the time of the cake!!).Wikipedia Day is a day in January when...
When we work toward our own personal goals, they often involve the development and ceaseless focus on engaging small habits that, when repeated together, help move us forward toward goal achievement.Very few goals we come up with can be achieved in any other way.Want...
What are Your Hidden Assumptions about Yourself? One of the Facebook groups I started a number of years ago, Actor-Network Theory (ANT), has chugged along over the years as a communal hub for those of us interested in the theoretical and methodological aspects of...
In an age of immediacy and computer-driven outsourcing of work, we can send out our laundry, order in food, gift giftcards, stream movies, and even speak to our digital assistants to remind us to send flowers on holidays, there still is not a way to outsource our own...
Four days into the New Year, so how are you doing with your 2019 goals?Doing well? Good, don’t stop! That means for this weekend — keep focusing on them and don’t let up on Saturday and Sunday!Perhaps they are not going as well as you intended?...
Article Discussion Starters (for How Great Leaders Inspire Action) I am facilitating an article discussion today with some colleagues who are coaches and work in various helping professions, and want to share the questions we will use as starters. We will be...
Every year at this time we are invited to pursue new goals for the upcoming year — New Year, New You!Hey, why not, given that with new things come new opportunities?When faced with the endless fire hose of messages and claims and invitations, sometimes what we...
Today is the final day of 2018. While it is not too late to wrap up those things we planned to do in 2018, the time is quickly coming to an end.How about grabbing these last few moments and finishing just ONE thing we set as a goal for 2018? It does not have to be a...
How often have you read an article, watched a TED Talk, or listened to a podcast on Coaching or Personal Empowerment and wished you had somebody to talk with them about? Ever want to discuss them in real time with others who may have new ideas to share or insights to...
Glühwein Greetings Wishing you and yours happy holidays and blessings as we transition from Yule and the Solstice into the New Year. May you achieve what you set out to do, rest as you need it, and prepare for new opportunities in 2019. I raise my mug of Glühwein...
We are in the final working week of 2018 before the holidays (Christmas, Yule, New Year’s, extended Hanukah, Festivus, etc.) so let’s go back to the beginning of 2018, shall we?Remember those New Year’s Resolutions you came up with? Perhaps you...
Prioritization of Goals through Biscuits I recently spoke about the importance of prioritizing your goals, since if you do not do it, somebody else will do it for you and likely their goals will be met instead of yours. While some may think this works for career...
Here we are at the start of another week, and it is once again an opportunity to prioritize our own goals. I know, I know — this is tough to do with so many other demands in my life. Email. Meetings. Appointments. Requests. Demands. Let me just wait until...
Did you meet your goals for this week?Sometimes we have weeks when we remain focused and accomplish what we set out to achieve, and other times life gets in the way. While we can always improve and do better, it could always have been worse!Spend some time this coming...
I have been talking a lot recently on my blog and on my Facebook Coaching page about how valuable it is to write in a journal to help think through and make sense of our experiences, along with how to be more decisive and even the value in our ongoing personal study...
Jeffrey M. Keefer, Ph.D., is an educational consultant, institutional researcher and accreditation officer in higher education, professor of research methodology, nonprofit capacity building and strategic planning consultant, talent development coach, spiritual life advisor (chaplain) at New York University, spiritual director, and Wikipedian.
How to Critically Evaluate the Sources Used in Graduate and Doctoral Research Papers
