The idea for this post started with a weekly message from my coaching colleague, Dan Wilson. He wrote about a community service project his corporate team carried out one Christmas long ago, and its long-term internal benefit. Dan often draws life lessons, along with...
Hello friends and followers! I hope this fall season—which, in Texas, is the brief period between “too hot” and “too cold”—is opening new experiences and new awareness of the possibilities for personal and professional success and significance. I have been working and...
You need an assortment of components, disciplines, and skills. We watch a lot of baseball at our house. Actually, my wife, the resident sports fan, watches a lot of baseball, and I’m in the room, too. But I know enough to see that a baseball team involves batting and...
Last Sunday was Pentecost Sunday in the Christian tradition, especially the more liturgical expressions of Christian faith, and our pastor’s sermon title was “Listen to This” which immediately got my attention. Pastor Jake usually has a creative approach,...
Last week, while at the gym, I listened to a podcast, which is my usual habit. The podcast in my queue was Whitney Johnson’s Disrupt Yourself, and the guest was John Mackey, the founder and CEO of Whole Foods. Obviously, there was a lot of business strategy and wisdom...
Whether you are a team leader (Corporate officer, director, mid-level manager, technical team lead) or a committed team member—and many are both—you may find it difficult to imagine your goals for 2021 after the year we have had. I feel that way in my own work here at...
And just to be clear, I’m talking about trust in the context of a team. Trust is certainly a valid concern on a sports team. As a matter of fact, Mike Krzyzewski—“Coach K” with Duke University Basketball for 40 years—offers this statement in his book Leading with the...
Over 23 years at Microsoft, I experienced a lot of “teams” both as an individual contributor and as a manager. Looking back over those experiences, I realize that some of those teams were not actually teams, but functioned as workgroups. How do I know that? What is...
In case you haven’t noticed, we Boomers (Generation “Baby Boom”) are beginning to age out of leadership. Our oldest members, born in 1946, are coming up on 74 this year and are probably retired from careers, even if still active in avocational roles through nonprofit...
