Tag: leadership

  • Be Your Own Boss

    “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist or accept the responsibility for changing them.” —Denis Waitley

  • Lessons Learned

    I was chatting with John Kottcamp the other day about leading and coaching people. I was reminded of a mentor of mine named Mike Winn. Like they say, “the difference between people is the books they’ve read and the people they’ve met”. Over the course of my life, many people have given me good advice,…

  • Accountability and Compassion

    “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.”  – Shonda Rhimes  I’ve been thinking about these two concepts a lot lately. They are often in juxtaposition with respect to someone’s performance as a teammate or an employee. There are times when each of us falls short, misses the…

  • Why before What

    “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt  I’ve been talking with my daughter about a charity that she wants to start. She’ll be calling it boxes of hope, which is essentially boxes full of items that would benefit children in need. Toys, treats, and books. She is…

  • Why before What

    “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”  – Franklin D. Roosevelt  I’ve been talking with my daughter about a charity that she wants to start. She’ll be calling it boxes of hope, which is essentially boxes full of items that would benefit children in need. Toys, treats, and books.…

  • Never Lose Alone

    “Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.”  – Ralph Marston  I was enjoying listening to the classic rock band, The Doors last night. The is a great song named “I’ve been down so long” … The famous lyric from the song is; “Well, I’ve been down…

  • Never Lose Alone

    I was enjoying listening to the classic rock band, The Doors, last night. There is a great song named “I’ve been down so long” … The famous lyric from the song is; “Well, I’ve been down so very damn long that it looks like up to me”. It’s a great example of literary wordplay.   As…

  • The Power of Saying “No”

    “Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”   ― Ralph Waldo Emerson  From a two page BMW ad spread in Automobile Magazine:  “The ability to say no to compromise is…

  • Modeling Good Consulting

    Dear Team,  I am nothing but thrilled about the progress we’ve made in our business over the last couple of months. That is not to say that we still don’t have a long way to go but we have a direction now and the opportunity to do great work. We grew up doing SDL Tridion implementations,…

  • Modeling Good Consulting

    Dear Team,  I am nothing but thrilled about the progress we’ve made in our business over the last couple of months. That is not to say that we still don’t have a long way to go but we have a direction now and the opportunity to do great work. We grew up doing SDL Tridion implementations,…