Each morning that I’m in town I spend precious time with my elementary aged son during the daily processional known as “getting ready for school”. And to be sure, it is not a perfect process.  Some days are over run with a struggle to get out of bed, to eat a healthy breakfast, to have

Beware of the Shiny Toy; Why Your Strategy Stinks

Have you worked with or for folks that like to use that saying?  I have too … and in nearly every case it means this:  “someone else will actually do the work while I say it’ll work out … and I’ll be proven right, again”. Here’s the truth folks, it NEVER ‘just works out’.  Not ever.   Someone, somewhere

“It’ll Work Out” Plus 4 Other Lies People Tell

Little Timmy is missing after the tornado and is reportedly trapped in the collapsed building.  He is likely running out of air, viability and hope.  A team of searchers is rapidly searching void spaces in the collapsed building using high-tech camera’s that extend into cracks to detect survivors on the inside.  One searcher sees a

Get Things Done and The Sequence of Response

Despite our best efforts and intentions, sometimes we make mistakes in our approach as business owners, managers, coaches or parents.  The most telling of these management mistakes is when we allow a gap between what is said and what is done.  In all of the years I’ve studied human behavior as it relates to performance,

TEAMS Are What TEAMS Do – When Team Building Goes Awry

Folks with functional needs have been historically under-served before a disaster strikes (think:  “notice event” like a hurricane versus a “no-notice” event like an explosion).   As a result, a disproportionate amount of effort must be taken to evacuate them to a better place after the disaster strikes.   During virtually every large hurricane in the last

Helping those with Functional Needs during a Disaster

When I was a young man, my father shared with me the following, inherited responsibility: “Improve the breed.” In terms of helpful guidance I’d rank it up there with “listen don’t speak”, “always use please and thank you” and “don’t eat the yellow snow”. Challenging to implement at times but immensely important to make part of our lives in both thought and action. Being of service to others, particularly those that we are responsible for, is one the of most impactful ways to improve not only our own breed but those around us too. Has anyone helped YOU up the ladder of life today? Have YOU helped anyone?

Your Ladder is your Legacy – How to Win by Serving Others