Category: Leadership Legacy
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Perspectives: Growth over time.
“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.” – Sam Gamgee You’re closer than you’ve ever been to accomplishing your goal. How do I know? Because you’ve already started. Starting the work sets you on a trajectory towards the middle. And though, for a while you might get lost in the middle…
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Preparing today for tomorrow’s opportunity.
“Oh fuck. I’m sorry. You don’t swear, so I’m going to for you.” That’s the text I received from my friend once she learned I had been included in the layoffs at my job. She’s right, I try not to swear, it does come out every once in a while. You could probably ask my…
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Just to remind you.
I was listening to an interview the other day with Patrick Lencioni. Craig Groeschel invited him on his podcast to share about his newest book, The 6 Types of Working Genius, and, as Craig Groeschel often does, asked his guest his favorite leadership quote. Patrick Lencioni responded with this: “Men more frequently require to be…
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The Tortoise and the Hare.
Over the last couple years of really being intentional with my learning, writing, speaking and creating, there is no piece of advice that has surprised me more than the Tortoise and the Hare. It’s one of Aesop’s Fables, definitely the less gruesome of stories, that is fun to listen to as a kid, but holds…
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A Reminder of Hope
Endurance by Alfred Lansing The record of the ill-fated trans-antarctic expedition, as compiled and written by Alfred Lansing is a miracle. If you haven’t picked up this book before, and you enjoy adventurous stories of men conquering impossible odds, you won’t be disappointed. I had never heard of Endurance by Alfred Lansing before. My brother-in-law…
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the discovery of search engines
There is a Hebrew proverb that says, “Whoever diligently seeks good seeks favor, but evil comes to him who searches for it” (Proverbs 11:27). I used to work at Apple retail. Among the many people we saw come through our doors (being an outdoor store, right on the main street of downtown), there were always…
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Standing on the shoulders of giants.
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Isaac Newton In our journey of growing in leadership there can be a tendency to criticize and critique the leadership of others. It can be a blatant critique, but more often than not it can come in a subtle form of…
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