Is Anything Festering On Your Team? (What Is Culture?)
fester : to become painful and infected : to become worse as time passes I remember getting a scrape on my arm as a child while playing football in the…
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The Irrefutable Power Of Teams (inspirational thoughts)
The car door slammed shut and my son’s fourth grade body leapt into the back seat of my car. His football pads rattled back and forth as he slid into his…
Attentiveness (one of the overlooked leadership skills)
“This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing that I know—that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.” – Mary Oliver In a multi-tasking world, attentiveness is…
Attack The Day
You can see the enthusiasm in his eyes when Shaka Smart, Head Men’s Basketball Coach at the University of Texas, encourages those around him to, “Attack The Day.” It’s a…
Freaky Fast & Thoughtfully Great (Leadership Lessons From Jimmy John’s)
The challenge was on. I was standing at the most creative retreat center on the planet, sparkspace, and staring at their founder and good friend, Mark Henson. Our mind-blowing creative…
Cast Down Your Bucket & Lead Where You Are
In his 1895 Cotton States Exposition address, Civil Rights leader Booker T. Washington, urged his followers to “Cast down your bucket where you are.” He challenged those listening (and…
Leadership Through Availability & Presence
The poet Maya Angelou famously said, “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” A…
Practice Small Questions Of Innovation
When I was a kid, the glass Heinz 57 ketchup bottles were on every table in almost every restaurant you walked into. It was always such a pain to…
Flipping Our Mindset On Leadership
In my opinion, the term “Leadership” has been hijacked over the years. The word has become so commonplace and used in so many general ways that its definition is…
6 Celebrations And Lessons From #SHRM15
I’m just back from Las Vegas and it was a tremendous experience speaking at the National Annual Conference for the Society for Human Resource Management (#SHRM15)! Over 15,500 HR leaders…