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To Mothers Who are Fathers, Happy Father’s Day!

  • by Joyce Harkness: Inspiring Leaders
  • Posted on September 4, 2016May 21, 2017
  • Reflections

To more than 780 thousand single mother families in Australia, to the mothers who are the fathers in their households around the world, Happy Father’s Day! In June 2012, according to the Australian Bureau of […]

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A Women’s Weekend Retreat and Thoughts on Feminism (Our Differences, What Unites Us)

  • by Joyce Harkness: Inspiring Leaders
  • Posted on May 26, 2015
  • Future Talk
New Feminism and What Unites Us

Once a year, a group of women come together to share a weekend retreat at a seaside location in the middle of winter. Why winter? Less crowds, close to Mother’s Day, perhaps. I don’t really […]

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Time to Breathe (Being Quiet and Still)

  • by Joyce Harkness: Inspiring Leaders
  • Posted on April 29, 2015April 30, 2015
  • Ideas in Action
When facing trouble, find time to be quiet and still

A few weeks ago, I temporarily parked my blogger’s ‘pen’ to take the time to breathe, to renew and refresh my spirit. Now I’m back! I would like to share with you what happened, why […]

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Beautiful, Beautiful Philippines (May Peace Be Yours in Abundance)

  • by Joyce Harkness: Inspiring Leaders
  • Posted on March 17, 2015March 18, 2015
  • Future Talk
Unity in prayer for peace

The slaughter of the Philippines National Police – Special Action Force personnel #fallen44 in #Mamasapano have troubled me deeply. Where is peace? What is the price of freedom from the clutches of terror, greed and corruption, ineptitude […]

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Making New Memories (Broken Vessels)

  • by Joyce Harkness: Inspiring Leaders
  • Posted on March 6, 2015October 11, 2017
  • Ideas in Action
Broken Not Forsaken

“All these pieces Broken and scattered In mercy gathered Mended and whole … Amazing grace!” It was the end of winter, but the house and yard still looked bleak from the street. It was empty, […]

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What Is Your ‘Bowl Of Lentils’?

  • by Joyce Harkness: Inspiring Leaders
  • Posted on February 22, 2015February 24, 2015
  • Ideas in Action

When her time to give birth came, sure enough, there were twins in her womb. The first came out reddish, as if snugly wrapped in a hairy blanket; they named him Esau (Hairy). His brother […]

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Crucible Moment

  • by Joyce Harkness: Inspiring Leaders
  • Posted on January 26, 2015January 28, 2015
  • Journeys and Choices

“Tell me of the time you experienced a crisis and how did you handle it?” Phil, the interviewer, asked me. “Do I tell you of the worst personal crisis I ever faced or do I just mention one of many I […]

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Fatal Flaws 2

  • by Joyce Harkness: Inspiring Leaders
  • Posted on October 9, 2014November 6, 2016
  • Ideas in Action
Barriers to personal growth and development

I learned this lesson a long time ago. And I am learning more about it as I build and lead new teams. When forming a team, apart from hiring for talent, competencies and organisation fit, […]

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The Cactus Blooms!

  • by Joyce Harkness: Inspiring Leaders
  • Posted on October 3, 2014November 27, 2014
  • Learning Moments
cactus blooms

“The cactus has flowers!” With delight, I rushed inside the house and declared my news to the children. I had just arrived from work, parked the car, then absent-mindedly made my way to the front door. […]

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Don’t Forget To Breathe

  • by Joyce Harkness: Inspiring Leaders
  • Posted on September 19, 2014March 6, 2015
  • Journeys and Choices
Come up for air and live life well

When I was in high school, I travelled by jeepney to my school. There were no jeepney stops then, so one waits by the roadside and hail the jeepney as it approaches. If it’s full, then […]

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It’s Called Stealing

  • by Joyce Harkness: Inspiring Leaders
  • Posted on September 5, 2014September 4, 2014
  • Journeys and Choices
Stealing in Digital Ocean

These past few days, we read about the hacking of the iCloud accounts of certain celebrities, that resulted in private items being egregiously passed around in the world of the internet. Along with the outcry, […]

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The Gift of Time

  • by Joyce Harkness: Inspiring Leaders
  • Posted on August 26, 2014April 14, 2015
  • Ideas in Action

2010. It was barely a few months after leaving my job. I helped with the divestitures of two major business units of a company that was once great. My process and systems knowledge and experience gleaned from […]

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  • To Mothers Who are Fathers, Happy Father’s Day! September 4, 2016
  • The Fire Within August 28, 2016
  • Deep Waters (Love Casts Out Fear) July 12, 2016

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