Fare thee well, fellow traveler
For 21 years, Don Riddell and I worked together as Vistage Chairs in the Los Angeles area. We also took 5 international trips together with the Wow Travel Group with our spouses and other friends and family. When he retired last December, he had his replacement Chair ready to take over and was off to […]
Gamify your day
How often do you look at your best days and analyze what made them better? What if you could create a game around having more of those? Let’s say on Tuesday, you had a good night’s sleep, felt great getting to work, had 5 great calls, moved a project that had been stuck forward and […]
Windows
I never thought much about windows. You opened them for air and you put curtains on them for privacy and to cut out the light in the morning. My 1935 wood frame house has steel windows that leak air and noise, but this is So Cal. So, so what? Then we bought a condo in […]
VUCA revisited
Recently I was asked to say more about VUCA and VUCA prime. VUCA stands for Volatility, Anxiety, Complexity and Ambiguity and was identified/described by Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus in the 1980’s. It was a leadership theory used by the military, corporate leaders and consultants to describe “A world where volatility still had some rhythm. […]
Your assumptions may be getting in your way
Our world is changing so quickly, it feels like it is impossible to keep up. There is so much misinformation, ai created new reality, and distrust of data. All that is before the uncertainty caused by on/off tariffs, the Mideast fighting and ICE raids. You may be angry and disturbed, perhaps feeling helpless. Some days, […]
Flag Day in the USA
This has been quite a week in the City of the Angels! Businesses all over the southland have been invaded by ICE. Retail, factories, swap meets, Home Depot locations, construction sites, restaurants, hotels, schools. The strawberry fields are not being picked. Caregivers and gardeners have been picked up. Whole communities are sheltered in place. Green […]
passion + perseverance=GRIT
Do you believe in the mission of your organization? Do your people believe in the mission? It turns out that mission driven organizations can move faster to achieve their goals because the team is aligned. They are focused on where they want to go. They have passion. Perseverance is getting up every day and doing […]
The roll out of an entrepreneur
It starts with an idea. A product or service that you think would be cool. Then the search to see if it exists. You just don’t find it. Not there. Or, what is there is nothing like the picture you have in your head. So, you think through what it would take to create it. […]
As summer starts…
Memorial Day jump starts summer time with the first long weekend in a while. It has warmed up in most parts of the country, and the spring green is fabulous. Visiting the Chicago Botanical Gardens, the last tulips were barely hanging in there and the Rhododendron were gorgeous. As summer starts, everyone we spoke with […]
Don’t quit on a bad day!
Have you ever watched a TED talk with a colleague or a movie with a friend and walked away with a completely different take-away than they did? How we interpret data is of course filtered through our own experiences and our mood, ability to focus and a bunch of other factors including how tired we […]