Have Fun…But Don’t Get an STD!
How Faith didn’t see Ray’s six foot, 260 pound frame packed under her desk I’ll never know. It had been a long 3 months. The five of us in our…
Turn Off The Flash
Abby (my youngest daughter) walked over to me and said, “Dad, that is Jenny’s grandma” and, very stealthily, nodded in the direction of an elderly woman waiting (like we were)…
Teamwork is All About “ME”
Whenever I teach a class or give a presentation on teamwork, I always give the old adage of “There’s no ‘I’ or ‘U’ in the word TEAM.” Just like clockwork,…
The Cement of Good Relationships
Relationships parallel houses in the way they are built. Daily, we add (or detract) from the foundation of our relationships – at work and at home. Daily, we lay bricks,…
The Crossroads Of Despair and Action
I couldn’t believe what I hadn’t gotten myself into. When I would stop and look at my job in its totality, I knew I was WAY out of my league. …
Have a Donut Policy
WHAT!? Why didn’t I know this? My door is always open! Recently, I heard from a former student and he relayed to me how, in a staff meeting, his new…
We Wanna Know!
As Marcellus Wallace said to Butch in Pulp Fiction, “We don’t want to think, we want to know.” Larry was a great guy to work for. He was, quite frankly,…
Building Team Trust
I love a good mystery, don’t you? Some of my favorite Sunday afternoons as a kid were spent watching Sherlock Holmes or Charlie Chan use their super sleuth skills to…
Problem Gas
He called an emergency meeting of the Department Heads. We sat there, looking at each other, wondering why the Captain had called the meeting. As he came in, we all…
Are You A Deckplate Leader?
My first two years in the Navy were less than productive. As a young 18 year old, I was loud, obnoxious, and thought many things were funny that my supervisors…