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Lou Holtz’s Formula For Success

I watched David Fehrety interview Hall of Fame football coach Lou Holtz on The Golf Channel’s show “Fehrety”. If you can find it on the internet or On Demand television I recommend it to leaders to watch. It is full of leadership insights. Holtz makes 150 motivational talks a year. He is gifted in boiling down leadership concepts into simple words that help you to retain. I got HQ Note material for two weeks listening

Howe Q. Wallace September 12, 2014

The Courage To Be Candid

I find myself starting a sentence at times with this qualifier: “If I’m being honest with you…” One time someone stopped and asked me: “Are you sometimes not honest with me?” That stopped me. It occurred to me that I meant something different. I didn’t mean I was about to be “honest,” I meant I was about to be more “candid.” There’s a difference. If I don’t tell you what is on my mind, if

Howe Q. Wallace August 1, 2014

Practicing Appreciation

Teamwork is important. I read articles about how to make teams better all the time. As I read them, I go through a mental “true or false” test. The more I find myself saying “true,” the more I validate the article. My appreciation grows for the article when it gives me a new angle on things I believe to be true. For one, it expands my ability to evaluate teams. For two, it gives me

Howe Q. Wallace July 30, 2014

The Four Ts of Success

Preparation for the 2014 college football season is about to begin and the college football coaches are making the media rounds. You can see an array of football coaches every day on ESPN expressing optimism for the coming season and how confident they are in the team. I’m a devoted fan and a sucker for such interviews. Charlie Strong, the new coach at Texas, impressed me. He said that his team had to put the

Howe Q. Wallace July 24, 2014

Words Matter

A plant leader in the log yard in Livermore Falls sent me an observation last week. He’s been paying attention to how he speaks to others and the impact it accomplishes. There are little things: Remembering to take time to tell a colleague he’s doing a good job as compared to assuming they understand they are doing a good job without it being said-“the no news is good news” approach. Or, asking a colleague to help

Howe Q. Wallace July 22, 2014

Leadership: Transactional or Transforming?

James MacGregor Burns died last week. When I determined to study the art and science of leadership, Burns’ book “Leadership” was the first I recall reading. I don’t ever recommend the book. It recall it to be tough sledding to read. But, in an early chapter he introduced the concept of transforming leadership as contrasted with transactional leadership. The idea is a cornerstone to how I have thought leadership ever since. He put it this

Howe Q. Wallace July 21, 2014

Character Accelerates Development

“Character accelerates the growth of talent.” – Tom Coughlin Coughlin is a Super Bowl winning football coach of the National Football League’s New York Giants. Like most coaches, he prefers his players are gifted with physical ability and the high character to get the most out of it. People of high character realize that talent is an ingredient not the finished dish. Certainly, we are blessed with different levels of skill and talent. Whatever our

Howe Q. Wallace July 15, 2014

Leadership Tips From Successful Crisis Management

Do you remember the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan a couple of years ago? It was a 9.0 earthquake that caused a 45 feet tall wall of water that wiped out a coastal community. Among the casualties was a nuclear power plant that melted down and caused a radioactive catastrophe. An American named Charles Casto from the Nuclear Regulation Commission was dispatched to lead a task force to manage, to study and to assure

Howe Q. Wallace July 11, 2014

The Past Is For Learning

Dr. Henry Cloud, one of my favorite authors, says this: “Think of your past for learning, or to feel gratitude. Never for punishment. ….of you or anyone else.” Do you beat yourself up for what you should or could of done and didn’t? Do you carry around mistakes you’ve made longer than you should? Are there negative experiences which now define what you will do in the future? Are there people whose past actions cause

Howe Q. Wallace July 9, 2014

Ask and Persist

I had the opportunity to hear Pat Croce speak a few weeks ago. If you don’t know him, he’s an entrepreneur whose made several fortunes as a physical therapist, an owner of a National Basketball Association team and curator of the Pirate Museum in St Augustine, Florida. Reviewing my notes on how he achieved such diverse tracks, a couple of characteristics pop out. One is something I refer to as self-nomination. If there is something

Howe Q. Wallace July 9, 2014

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THE JUICE IS WORTH THE SQUEEZE

“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

Howe Q. Wallace March 25, 2024

HAPPENING TO THE WORLD – A SATISFYING WAY TO LIVE

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

Howe Q. Wallace March 25, 2024

SUFFERING AND CHALLENGES

“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

Howe Q. Wallace March 22, 2024