Making It Through The Office Social Intact
Yes, it’s that time…TIME FOR THE ANNUAL OFFICE PARTY! WOOT WOOT! You’ve been waiting, patiently, for it to come up and now, finally, it is here. That person in accounting…
How To Change Your Attitude
I reached my hotel room at 1AM and wondered what the next day was going to hold for me. It had been the end of an extremely long day. I…
How to Effectively Delegate
Diamond Dan explained it to me quite simply when he said, “If you’re really busy and you’re people aren’t…you aren’t delegating effectively.” I can’t tell you how many times those…
Change It! (The Shoe Theory)
I don’t know about you but I can get frustrated when things don’t go the way I want or when people don’t meet my expectations. During a “whine” session about…
Are You A Talker Or A Doer?
In order to navigate today’s rough waters we must do more than talk about it, we must do! One of the best action leaders I have ever served with was…
Man Plans, God Laughs (Choose To Laugh Along)
I’d been planning it for about a month. I had contacted the people who ran the Chris Isaak concert where I had bought tickets but had heard nothing back. The…
Do You Want To Bounce Back?
“What’s my big idea?” I asked the fortune teller as she took the tarot deck from me. As she laid the cards out and read them she said, “What I…
On Veteran’s Day, Write a New Story
On the 11th Day of the 11th hour of the 11th month fighting stopped and this day, which began as Armistice Day, started as a celebration of the peace that…
Prioritize Your Care
“DAD! He’s looking at me!” “DAD! She’s in my space!” “DAD! He ate the last cookie!” Okay, the last one was me. I ate the last cookie. I learned early…
Hope is NOT a Strategy for Change
Why is it that 70% of change initiatives fail? Because people are involved. People are messy, resistant to change, and don’t like to be told what to do. If there…