Leadership

  • What Makes People Stay

    What Makes People Stay

    Paychecks attract talent. Benefits keep them comfortable. But what makes people stay is knowing they matter. Most organizations say they value their people. Then their…

  • Ready For Take Off

    Ready For Take Off

    Power is a complicated concept that I have a mixed relationship with. With a lens of being in service to others, I have built a…

  • Home Sweet Ever-Evolving Home

    Home Sweet Ever-Evolving Home

    In early 2001, I was a young, single, self-employed dad with two kids starting over. At the time, the house I now call home was…

  • Serving Helps Me Belong

    Serving Helps Me Belong

    I have been thinking about belonging this week. Work-wise, I’m spending time with an employer trying to build a culture that embraces it. Another client…

  • 300 Years Is A Long Time

    300 Years Is A Long Time

    In an effort to better understand and connect with the rooms I am facilitating or coaching, I now make an effort to consciously absorb and…

  • मैनु सेवा कारन तो नहीं रोक्या जावेगा

    मैनु सेवा कारन तो नहीं रोक्या जावेगा

    मैनु सेवा कारन तो नहीं रोक्या जावेगा While the literal translation of this Hindi is “Will not be stopped due to menu service” I think…

  • Service Leadership Lessons from Kaja & Adam

    Service Leadership Lessons from Kaja & Adam

    As much of an Apple fan as I am, their Podcast interface on iOS is painful. I am usually listening in the morning, half awake…

  • Another Resignation, More Learning

    Another Resignation, More Learning

    This week’s original post was a work in progress early this am. It started with the absolute and never-ending influence of U2 and pivoted to…

  • Do You Have a Cold Beer?

    Do You Have a Cold Beer?

    A friend shared an experience recently. It was a story that many of us have heard or can relate to and speaks to the grace,…

  • White Rabbits

    White Rabbits

    I write a lot about my grandmother Elsie (my mom’s mom) and the four simple words she shared with me. She was a force of…

  • When Is A Truck More Than A Flag?

    When Is A Truck More Than A Flag?

    The white F-150 rolled up behind me as I approach the stop light. Not unusual in the rural-ish community I live in. For context and…

  • Leaving To Serve Better

    Leaving To Serve Better

    Many of the big life decisions I have made have been with the privilege of doing so in relative privacy. And while significant to me,…