Wednesday Wisdom

Are you starting to think about your summer reading? 📚☀️ Here are a couple of recommendations: 🌟The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You’re Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, [...]

Strategic Grit was born of the lessons (sometimes painful, sometimes joyful) that we learned in 2020, a unique year in many ways. Some of these lessons we learned on our own, through our research [...]

Check out a couple of favorites from my February book stack. 📚 Only have time for 1 or 2? Rich Diviney’s The Attributes and Kevin Oakes’ Culture Renovation are books I highly recommend. 👍 [...]

2020 was tough and the global consensus was that it would be a welcome thing to move on to 2021. But when the calendar turned to 2021, things were still tough. Wait, what?!? Okay, as it turns [...]

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 [...]

3 Ways to Prevent Uploading Responsibility You’ve probably heard the saying “Don’t bring me a problem without a solution.” And managers I know tell me that employees who are too quick to escalate [...]

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 [...]

Although released in 2018, I thought a book billed as the “antidote to chaos” would be prefect for my Summer 2020 reading list. The author, Jordan B. Peterson, wrote the book to expand on his [...]

Self-Awareness A pivotal moment in my self-awareness journey came several years ago during a heated discussion with a coworker. At the time, I was a Human Resources Manager attempting to point [...]

My friend Lindsay asks really good questions, the kind that kick-off long, in-depth conversations that sometimes actually hurt. And yet, I love having them. Recently, Lindsay asked me about a low [...]