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Be the frig light

By Camille Smith / February 20, 2024

The light’s purpose is to illuminate what’s in the frig, not to bring attention to itself. Its function, its role in the system, is to make it easy for someone to see what’s present and what’s missing. We count on the light: On when the door’s open. Off when the door’s shut. The light is…

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Be Kleenix

By Camille Smith / February 13, 2024

If you do laundry, you know. Kleenix defies logic. It comes through the intense wash cycle and the relentless dryer heat intact, unruffled, seemingly ready to be used again. If you find yourself in a chaotic, turbulent situation, one bereft with intense miscommunications, misunderstandings, and relentless power games – be kleenix. Be kleenix and defy…

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Bring back the &

By Camille Smith / January 5, 2024

The English alphabet didn’t always go from A to Z. If you’d be learning your ABC’s in the 19th century, it’s very likely that your alphabet would have had a 27th member following Z – that member was &. The very first ampersand was a ligature – that is, a character consisting of two or…

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Never-ending Season

By Camille Smith / November 27, 2023

Being thankful. It’s a choice. Not determined by the day. Not dependent on others. Not designed to get something. It’s a choice. To be above the fray. To be attuned to your heart. To be attentive to their heart.   Who or what are you thankful for? Who makes your life easier? What situation brings…

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High Heel or Birkenstock?

By Camille Smith / September 21, 2023

If you’ve seen Barbie, the movie, you know the choice she made.      (If you haven’t seen it yet and have seen Matrix, think: Blue or Red Pill?) Isn’t it always about our choices?  No matter your role, title, gender, age, education, politics, religion – no matter the memberships you claim – our choices…

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Generalities aren’t helpful.

By Camille Smith / July 26, 2023

Want to be a more effective leader? Want to build trust in a relationship or team? IF SO … deal in specifics, not generalities,. Why do specifics matter? By itself, wanting to be a more effective leader doesn’t increase your effectiveness.   A specific area for increased effectiveness needs to be distinguished, committed to, and…

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Use your anger to recover yourself.

By Camille Smith / April 18, 2023

My commitment is to encourage you to lead, yourself and others, by discovering, developing, and being yourself.  Inviting you to see the movie “Women Talking” coupled with sharing Sonya Chemaly’s well-researched, conscious-raising Rage Becomes Her: The power of women’s anger does that in spades for me. Take 5 minutes to hear Chemaly speak about women’s…

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What’s that you felt & suppressed?

By Camille Smith / March 17, 2023

Self-awareness is essential whether you’re leading others or just yourself. Regardless of your gender, if you haven’t already, please, please, please watch Women Talking. Don’t watch it because it won Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2023 Academy Awards. Watch it for the timelessness and timeliness of the message. It stirred and disturbed me deeply. It…

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Look!! Up in the Sky!! There’s another one!! (Part 2)

By Camille Smith / February 17, 2023

Make a choice: Choice 1: If you’ve got only 30 seconds, draw your own conclusion about why these 2 pictures appear in a blog on leadership.   Choice 2: Skip Part 1, dive into Part 2:  Look, there’s another one! Choice 3:  To get the background for Part 2, that includes recommend actions for the…

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Are foreign weather balloons messing with your airspace?

By Camille Smith / February 7, 2023

News Flash: Chinese weather balloon hovering over Montana! When I heard this news, thoughts rushed in: If the Chinese didn’t mean for this weather balloon to be over Montana, if it was pulled off course by unusual weather patterns, why didn’t they contact the US when it crossed into US airspace and alert us? They…

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