One of our board members and his wife recently journeyed to Africa. While there, they toured a business. He found this and shared it. From a sewing room in a tribal textile business in Africa: OUR PHILOSOPHY We are all important. Be grateful every day. All men and women are equal Help each other, don’t blame each other. Leave anger at the gate, be positive Communication is key.
“The best way to predict the future is to create it. Do you want a bigger role? Start earning it today.” I look for advice like this to share with my kids. Usually, you might take some advice like this and say “I need to get to work.” What would you choose to work on? Improving skills? Building endurance? Studying harder? Showing up earlier? When we think of improving the world we live in, the
If you are one who believes “trust” is fundamental to every good team, company or relationship, you may want to study the graphic above and commit it to memory. It’s a good blueprint for assessing why trust exists. Or why it doesn’t. We trust competence. We want our surgeons to have many completed surgeons under their belt. We want our coaches to have winning records. We want to have colleagues who have been “in the
I was reading about something that is called the Theory of Self-Determination. The content is this: Everybody is seeking three things: To be competent To be authentic To be connected Many of you recently filled out our annual engagement survey. If you consider the questions, the theory of self-determination makes sense. We ask you if you get to do what you do best. We ask you if someone is concerned about your development. We ask
Daily with HQ Note from December 4, 2014 What is your engagement strategy? Some of you will dismiss that question. Your thought is engagement is for the extroverted, outgoing types. But, I encourage everyone on our team to consider how they engage others. To fail to engage means the world loses the impact of your gifts and skills. Failing to engage means you will suffer in silence. The world and the people you encounter have
Julian Treasure studies communication, especially the skill of listening. Listening is a habit. It takes intention. You have to relegate talking, justifying, telling and explaining to the back of the bus. You have to put listening up front. Treasure uses the acronym RASA to describe the listening process. He says “rasa” in Sanskrit means juice. In other words, if you want to “juice” your communication process, you will “rasa”. Receive. Get ready to hear something.
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.” Thomas A. Edison The old story goes that Edison tried 1,000 versions of the light bulb before he got one to work. He said he never regarded the experiments a failure. “I didn’t fail” he said. “I just found 999 things that didn’t work.” Based on Edison’s quote, there are rewards for those who keep trying when others would quit. There are lots of
I’ve been reading a blog that considers the role of race in business. One the sources consulted is Richard Parsons who was CEO of Time Warner AOL and Chairman of Citibank during the financial crisis of 2008. He is one of the most notable and accomplished African American CEO’s in business history. Parson’s grandfather was the Rockefeller’s head gardener. He told a story about visiting Rockefeller’s estate where there were still employees his grandfather had
Mistakes are a part of the building process. Mistakes have to be made. How you act when you make mistakes is of paramount importance.” Coach Mike Krzyzewski, Olympic Gold Medal Basketball coach Krzyzewski is one of the leaders I admire most. He builds winning teams by cultivating winning cultures. His leadership is consistently becoming more effective. He builds on it each year. His quote about mistakes provides insight into his process. On his teams, mistakes
Jossy Chacko is a speaker who suggests that there are three ways to expand your leadership: Enlarge the Vision Yesterday, I mentioned Dr. Henry Cloud thoughts on enlarging a vision: “Two things can really drive a vision: something awful that you want to rectify…. or something awesome that you want to realize.” People are attracted to big things. When Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans in 2005, people rallied to restore the city. New neighborhoods were
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“Everything you want is on the other side of ‘hard’.” – CJ McCollum, NBA player McCollum is a story of overachievement. He was undersized. Played college basketball at a non-descript school. Was a long shot to be an NBA player but worked his way to being a first-round draft pick and was a solid star in his 10th year in the league. I heard him describe his approach to the game and his development on a podcast called
PalletOne leaders “happen to the world.” What does that mean? A PalletOne leader is confident. Each situation creates an opportunity for service and contribution. We are talented and put those talents to work. We see those around us as having talent. We seek to unlock it. We realize that we can be called upon to take the initiative to improve things at any moment. We act when the situation calls for it. We inspire through
“Weep, trust, pray, think, shift, hope, grow. Ways to handle suffering.” – Tim Keller Tim Keller was a preacher from New York City. He passed away in 2023. I followed him on Twitter because he tweeted profound thoughts like the one above. You don’t exit life without tough things happening to you. It’s a fact. None of us are exempt. In specific order, Keller gave us seven verbs to consider when challenged: Weep – It’s
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