What is Your Leadership Wake?
I bumped into a friend today at Starbucks and he mentioned a term I had not heard before, “Leadership Wake.” This term refers to the residual impact of your leadership – what you leave behind you. To really understand this you have to have some degree of knowledge about boats. Boats of any size leave what’s called a “wake” behind …
Read MoreWork Off The Top Of The Tank
The baby blue 1965 Chevelle Malibu convertible glided silently down the hill, around the corner and straight into our car port. My brother had run out of gas – again. Thankfully he had run out of gas at the top of the street that descended to our house where he could, with a certain degree of dignity, gracefully glide to …
Read MoreA Lesson From the Fly
It’s the middle of winter and there aren’t any flies around, but the beginning of a new year is a good time to learn a lesson from the fly. Have you ever sat inside your home on a warm day in a comfy chair beside a window and watched a fly trapped on the inside trying to get outside? We …
Read MoreYou Gotta Have H.E.A.R.T.
What do you think your most valuable asset is? I mean as a person, not what you own. Your education? Your experience? Your intelligence? Your emotional intelligence? Your abilities and talents? I would venture to say that none of those are really your most valuable asset. Sure they are all valuable components of who you are and what you bring …
Read MoreWithout a Vision People Perish
A story is told of three stone masons working on the construction of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. St. Paul’s was designed by architect Sir Christopher Wren and was completed in 1720. For over 300 years it has been one of the most famous and recognizable buildings in the London skyline. At 365 feet tall it was also the tallest …
Read MoreWhat Did You Want for Christmas?
Wow! Have you seen it? Have you seen the WestJet Christmas ‘commercial’? Totally awesome. If you haven’t seen it, you have to check it out on YouTube. Here is the gist of the campaign… WestJet put a huge Christmas present in the departure lounge of an airport somewhere in Canada. They installed a large TV screen in the front side …
Read MoreAre You a Victor or a Victim?
Recently the world has been celebrating the life of Nelson Mandela, and mourning his death. Perhaps more than any other character in modern history Nelson Mandela has captured the world’s attention, respect and admiration for his resistance to the oppression of racism and hatred. His devotion to democracy, equality and learning has been unwavering. According to the Mandela Foundation, “Despite …
Read More21 Things Leaders Need to Say and Do More Often
Every leader is concerned to some degree or another about how to create profound and powerful employee engagement. Every year leaders across North America spend billions trying to do just that. Yes, massive amounts of money are spent in an effort to equip, encourage, envision, enlighten, and exhort employees to be genuinely and deeply engaged at work. In other words, …
Read MoreThe Power of Conviction
Whatever was making that noise didn’t sound familiar. What is it? There it was again…what on earth is that? He thought he heard a strange sound coming from the back of the plane a short time after takeoff. He decided to investigate… He had no idea the series of events that would then occur to forever change the course of …
Read More“I Want to be Batman!”
And with those words 5 year old Miles Scott initiated a series of events that neither he, nor the city of San Francisco, nor the nation could fathom. Miles Scott has been dealing with leukemia since he was 18 months old, so he knows a little something about battling bad guys. Recently when he was asked by the Make a …
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