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The quality question
- Category: Communication, Leadership, Making better decisions
If you want to get better results, you may think you need to get better answers. Let’s go a little deeper here. Suppose that the question asked is the question...
Los Angeles – we will rise!
- Category: Leadership, Living Well, Overcome Obstacles, Uncategorized
The helicopters are still circling. The winds are coming back. The fires are not out. Houses are gone. People are still evacuated. The houses that remain are smoke damaged. No...
Containers around the world
- Category: The Economy, Uncategorized
Living near L.A-Long Beach, the largest port in the US, I’ve seen a lot of containers being moved. I’ve toured the port and been up in the big crane facilities...
Revisiting Sydney
- Category: Living Well, Uncategorized
It was Sept. 2000, when I flew to Sydney for the summer Olympics. It was my 3rd Olympics, having attended L.A. in 1984 and Barcelona in 1992. I was over...
Happy holidays!
- Category: Living Well, Uncategorized
It is all a matter of perspective, isn’t it? Here is my 70 pound poodle looking twice my size. Is that the way your troubles look? Keeping up with all...
Desperately seeking peace and quiet?
- Category: Living Well, Overcome Obstacles, Uncategorized
Is turning your brain off enough to go to sleep a problem for you? Or, are you waking up in the middle of the night and awake for hours? How...
“Rewirement” – Not Retirement
I heard the phrase this week “Rewirement, not Retirement”, and I’ve been mulling it around for a few days. Many of my 1-2-1’s this year have been with folks thinking...
Future you
- Category: Living Well, Management Focus, Supply Chain, Uncategorized
It is a year from now, Dec 1. 2025, and you are sitting in a comfy chair with an afghan on your lap (or a poodle). You think back over...
Gamify joy finding
- Category: Mindset, Uncategorized
Why is it that pets and small children find joy in little things all day long? Why are the rest of us so grumpy? They/we were born with this ability...
Charge and re-charge
- Category: Making better decisions, Time Management, Uncategorized
If you have seasonality to your work life like I do, planning recharge time after charge time is more necessary than we might think. The second week of each month...
Don’t waste your energy on what you can’t control
This week, I have spent many hours talking Members through their disappointment and fears around the outcome of the election. Higher tariffs, anti-immigrant policies, hateful and divisive language threaten their...
Password buddy
- Category: Living Well, Making better decisions, Uncategorized
In the worst case scenario. say, you were in a car accident, would someone know the password for your phone, or for your computer? Who has your Medical Power of...
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