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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…