Do what only YOU can do!
Who does your job when you are busy filling in for someone else? My guess is that you had a plan for your day, your week, this month, this quarter and on to a 5 year plan, and it tends to get hijacked along the way. Then you spend the quiet hours after everyone else […]
Balancing on a beach ball
Many in the Vistage community are familiar with the story told in Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott, a former Vistage Chair, about 2 people describing a beach ball from opposite sides. One person is adamant that the ball is red, and the other says it is green, or blue or white. It appears to them […]
Cultivate hope in your team
“Let’s talk about what truly separates effective leaders from the rest. It’s not only charisma or technical skills—it’s their ability to cultivate Hope in their teams.” – Yira Muse, Ph.D. and Vistage Speaker. She goes on: “What most people get wrong about Hope in leadership: ❌ Hope = staying positive when things get tough ✅ […]
Stay balanced on the high wire
Tariffs are on, tariffs are off. Now they are back on. Before January and for a long time, the average tariff was about 2%. Trump raised them to 10% and repeatedly threatens to raise them much, much higher. But if the tariff target country agrees to give many millions or billions to causes Trump chooses […]
Democracy at work
Buildings in the mountains take a lot of abuse especially from winter weather. You can’t defer maintenance that you might get away with in milder climates. That is one reason we bought a condo in Mammoth so clearing the snow, and fixing leaks, etc would be a group responsibility, not just ours. It seemed like […]
Just one small step
Do you have those days when you are just stuck? You don’t have any energy, or no creativity, or the kids were up half the night? Do you bail and call in sick? I felt that way about writing a post today. I’ve been doing this every Sunday for over 10 years and except for […]
Strengthen your core
If you have done pilates or are building flexibility and strength, you know how important it is to strengthen your core. It is not an obvious focus in the beginning – maybe you don’t even know where it is. Think of holding your stomach muscles in and you are pretty close. Stand with your head […]
VUCA Prime
Last week I talked about VUCA: Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. The term comes out of Software Development where waterfall programming (developing the whole software before testing) got lapped by agile sprints (all hands working on one small piece, testing and repeat.) I mentioned that leadership expert Bob Johansen proposed this antidote to VUCA in […]
VUCA it is!
VUCA is an acronym that stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. It’s a framework used to describe situations that are unpredictable and rapidly changing. Well, doesn’t that sound like the times we are living in! It is how Musk ran his companies and how our federal government is being run today. The volatility and uncertainty is […]
Focus on your strategy
This first week of the new administration in Washington has been full of executive orders, firings, pardons for convicted felons, termination of programs extant since the 1960’s, and senate confirmation of individuals who have never run an organization the size and complexity of what they were nominated to run. Interestingly, tariffs except against our closest […]