About this time last year I wrote a guest post on DJ Cronin's Blog http://djcronin.blogspot.com/2010/12/thank-you-speech-to-volunteers-2-guest.html.

"The world we created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking". Albert Einstein

The following post is a response to the Energize October 2011 Hot Topic by Susan J. Ellis “What Leaders of Volunteers Can DO to Gain Executive Attention".

Have you ever heard people lamenting that it’s Monday or saying “Thank god it’s Friday”.

My inspiration for writing blogs often comes from either personal experience or from something that I have read. My most recent post was inspired by a debate on International Womens day in 2010. I found it on Youtube, used excerpts and posted the links. ...

Linda Kaplan Thaler in her book, “The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World with Kindness”, co-authored by Robin Koval, suggests that “nice has an image problem.” She goes on to say “Somewhere along the way, using the word nice became something you ...