How do you expect to finish if you never start?
As a college athlete, I won a conference championship & was voted captain. Then, I helped build a multi-million dollar furniture company. Then, I chased a lifelong dream by writing & publishing a book (Believe EG21) about the incredible true story of the '05 CSU football team. I love to learn, teach, & question the status quo.
If there are two more people in an organization, there is a culture and there is a language. Whether we like it or not, we have a company culture and it develops with ever action we take and word we speak/type. Simple things such as do people bring their lunch or do they consistently eat out? Do people respond to… Continue reading Define the Culture
A top skill among leaders as well as managers, is problem-solving. All too often we see organizations put what I call a band-aid on an ax wound. It may have stopped the bleeding, momentarily, but the fact remains that there is a hole the size of an ax with multiple layers of damage. A good example of this is an… Continue reading 5 Whys
As managers, we need to recognize early and remind ourselves often that our greatest asset is the teams we manage. You can call them employees, team member, happiness workers, or whatever your organization titles them, but the fact remains that they are the most important aspect of our jobs. Without a great team surrounding us, we are useless. The very… Continue reading Greatest Asset
Often times in our professional careers we have people who help us in some way, shape, or form. Often times they don’t even know it, they were just passing by and gave us an encouraging word. Other times they help us work through a sticky situation we’ve never handled before and still others mentor us for years. We don’t always… Continue reading Thank them
As 17:49 passed on the digital screen ahead of me, my right knee began to feel tight and overworked. I rowed on for another 2:08 before I realized that I was overworked and I need a rest. It was actually 29 days since I needed a rest. I have been working out non-stop since January and began training for a… Continue reading Just Stop
As my business partner and I were talking through our plans for how to build the community of our adventure travel company, we discussed the flywheel effect. A flywheel takes significantly more energy to get started in the beginning, but once it’s moving the inertia of what you’ve been doing previously takes over and the device is nearly self-propelling. It needs… Continue reading Flywheel Effect
We are all wronged at some point or another, it happens. Humans make mistakes, offend, and upset each other on a regular basis. No one is perfect and we are going to get in each others’ way, it’s inevitable. But without forgiveness, we cannot earn each other’s respect. I have never met someone that is forgiving that does not have… Continue reading Forgiveness
Finishing a project is hard work. It requires focus, determination, foresight, and confidence. Seth Godin calls it shipping, a fitting term, signifying your project has left the building and is ready to be picked apart. It’s the time at which you’re no longer tinkering with a side project and your work is ready to be judged. We published our first… Continue reading Criticism Counts