Tag Archives: Ruth Ann Harnisch
How Not To Get Money From Steven Spielberg and Angelina Jolie
Day 33
Is this work, if I write about a fundraising crime?
I was actually reading a showbiz publication, Hollywood stuff, and wound up reading the case study of a philanthropy in crisis.
That link takes you to a news story about a fundraiser that the organizers admit they threw together in less than two weeks, and yet they have [...]
Chain, Chain, Chain
Day 32
I’ve tried to remember when I first heard about Jerry Seinfeld and The Chain . This much I do know: I had planned to start a number of Seinfeld-inspired chains on January 1, 2010, and I’m pleased that some of them are unbroken.
There’s another theory that could be a corollary of The Chain. Author Malcom [...]
Want Someone To Pay For Your Sabbatical?
Day 25
I’m a member of the Women Donors Network . Today, one of the members posted that Compass Point link on our confidential listserv that I shared with you earlier here . It’s the study showing nonprofit executives who take sabbaticals are better at their jobs when they return to work.
But she added something else, and I [...]
Slower
Day 14
Yes, I know, it’s almost the end of Day 14. I’m not responding to artificial deadlines this year.
When TED Community Director Tom Rielly invited The Harnisch Foundation to be a founding sponsor of the TED Fellows program, we signed on immediately. The TED Fellows are some of the most extraordinary people in the world. As a [...]
Temporarily Abled
Day 11
We’ve been talking about reinvention of one’s self from an intentional perspective. But what if you had no choice in the matter? (Samantha Who?)
The entertainer Barbara Mandrell is a case in point. My (late) first husband worked for her in the 1970s. I learned a lot about show business – and life – from [...]
Shut Up. No, Really, Shut Up.
Day 8
I used to take money to talk – on the radio, on television, on stage.
These days, I don’t talk much, and during my sabbatical, I’m talking even less. I am conscious of opportunities for silence, and I embrace them. I turn off the television, the speaker on the computer, and switch the phone to [...]
What’s Cooking?
Day 7
Did you see Julie and Julia ?
I enjoyed so many things about that movie, but mostly, I like the true-life success stories of Julia Child and Julie Powell .
Their triumphs were all the more remarkable because each woman started at the bottom of the field where she found her fame.
Julia Child took cooking classes, collaborated on a [...]
My Sabbatical Smells Good – Should Yours?
Day 3
If you have decided to join me on sabbatical (please do, even if you can only stay for a minute), here’s today’s coaching tip for making the most of the time away from your usual routine. I got this one from my sister Carol several decades ago.
She was an artist, and worked alongside other artists [...]
I’m On Sabbatical – Don’t You Want To Come Too?
Apparently sabbaticals are the new black.
When I mentioned I’m on one, some people began telling me of their fabulous sabbaticals, and nearly everybody else told me how much they want one.
So take one! Why not, even if you can only stay for a minute?
Yesterday, I told you the most important step in getting to take a sabbatical: [...]
There Is No Try – Do Or Do Not
Work ethic- it was pounded into me from earliest childhood.
Kids had chores, and were expected to exercise some creativity, ingenuity, and enterprise to earn their own money. I can’t remember when I wasn’t busy. I usually had more than one job – even in high school, I was working at a radio station and a [...]
