Wednesday Wisdom

By Jennifer Horn-Frasier and Holly Adams Holly: “Everyone has a story.” This was an observation a dear friend of mine made several years ago, and it helped me realize that we all have a seed of [...]

By Jennifer Horn-Frasier and Holly Adams Jennifer: I’ve been thinking a lot about the complex problems we citizens of the world face today, the ones that have no easy, obvious solution. We read [...]

October 2021 In our third round of blog posts, we look at the role of emotions in Strategic Grit, provide tips and tricks for overcoming the challenges that come with them, and more. We want to [...]

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 [...]