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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...
Fare thee well, fellow traveler
- Category: Living Well, Uncategorized
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...
Gamify your day
- Category: Execution, High Performance Teams, Uncategorized
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...
Windows
- Category: Making better decisions, Uncategorized
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...
VUCA revisited
- Category: Uncategorized
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...
Your assumptions may be getting in your way
- Category: Uncategorized
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...
Flag Day in the USA
- Category: Leadership, Uncategorized
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...
passion + perseverance=GRIT
- Category: Company Culture, Leadership, Uncategorized
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...
The roll out of an entrepreneur
- Category: Innovation, Uncategorized
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....
As summer starts…
- Category: Mindset, Personal Development, Uncategorized
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....
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...
White smoke
- Category: Leadership
On Thursday, day two of the papal conclave, white smoke arose from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel. A new pope had been chosen. If you know little about Catholicism,...
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