Teamwork

The high school fall football season just wrapped up in Iowa, and my son’s team made it to the semi-finals, losing to the team that ended up winning the state championship. The team and [...]

Football is a relatively new experience for my son, who, at the high school level, chose to participate in the sport for the first time last year. Because I’m still learning too, I know he’s a [...]

2020 isn’t over yet. It’s June. It’s halftime. We still got another half. We can still win it. ~Doc Rivers  Doc Rivers, head coach of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers, said this in a recent [...]

Check out these 8 habits of great managers. https://www.gallup.com/workplace/272681/habits-world-best-managers.aspx For those of us in a non-manager role – item 3: admit and accept mistakes [...]

Check out this week’s video! https://bit.ly/2sl7mpD   How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie   Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and [...]

I recently found myself on the other side of coaching and want to share the experience with you. Yes, it involves a dragon boat: a long boat with 18 oarsmen. I agreed to be a dragon boat oarsman [...]

You won’t find me in front of a TV very often, and when you do, one of the last things I’m probably watching is a reality TV series. But (surprise!) a couple of weeks ago I actually watched some [...]

I’ve been a part of some fantastic work teams. There is one group, though, that remains my favorite. Not because we were all alike, but because we were so different. Because my clients hold [...]

Leadership behaviors surround us. Note the most unconventional sources. For me, the most realistic and accurate description of leadership is one of a journey, rather than a destination. My [...]

Have some extra down time for reading? Here are some of my current favorites:   The Dichotomy of Leadership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin Leadership requires finding the balance between [...]