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02 May 2009

Cool sheep

I've discovered someone on the web who I thought I liked. Actually I love his Ignore Everybody, but seeing the top post on his blog today, I'm wary of just saying I'm fully behind him.

Anyway, I'm getting a lot of mileage out of his sheep cartoon, while I figure out where I'm going. Where I can best nurture my dreams. Whether there's a future for me in our company.

Cool sheep

Things are interesting at work at the moment. Some of the right people have discovered me as a storyteller, and are switching on to the powere there is in it. I'm finding myself expounding on Hugh's idea. I told someone this week that if I'm going to be an interesting sheep, I'd better expect to find myself in some pretty odd fields.

I'll send you a postcard. :-)

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Tracy, in 138 words

  • I'm a thinker who understands that other messages grow in gaps between what is said and what is meant – and addresses this space directly

    I'm a writer who holds the audience’s hand, then releases them to discover thoughts and ideas of their own

    I'm an articulator who breaks big ideas into little pieces anyone can hold in their own hand

    I'm a believer: in strengths, in possibility, in prayer, in people

    I'm an investor in people, who helps them to build on what they’re good at, and rise to their best

    I'm a storyteller who captures imaginations and brings them along on the journey

    I'm a communicator who believes that it’s not in what you say, it’s in how you make people feel

    I'm a change agent who believes that we show what’s important through what we do

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