In my early teens, I failed to earn my Environmental Science merit badge as a Boy Scout because I wasnā€™t willing to follow through on the required 500-word essay. Most of my struggles throughout high school were due to having no interest in similar writing assignments and a complete rebellion agains...
For more than two and half decades, Cindy and I have worked incredibly hard at coming to terms with our worth and overcoming self-imposed limits. Weā€™ve each approached the process a bit differently but praise God weā€™ve been able to do it together. That said, there have been plenty of times where weā€™...
I mentioned earlier how difficult itā€™s been to establish appropriate cost structures for the services we provide, especially as we first got started. Although we were building a level of confidence in our area of strength, coming to terms with our worth - even after reflecting on guidance from our c...
One common thread with each of the amazing mentors Iā€™ve interacted with to this point in my life has been that all of them have juggled incredibly busy schedules. Iā€™m always amazed at how theyā€™re all willing to block time to provide mentorship insight routinely - especially when theyā€™ve seen their p...
I rarely speak with a group at this point without referencing how blessed Iā€™ve been through the relationships I now have with so many amazing people. Each time I share this, Iā€™m intentional in detailing that the very best of these relationships came from strategic investments of time and energy, and...
Over the course of my close to fifty years on this ball of mud, Iā€™ve learned that the only people who truly like change are the ones who came up with the idea for the specific change thatā€™s happening in any given moment. I can tolerate change when I have some level of control in how it occurs or whe...
I blocked my calendar on the afternoon for February 24, 2022 to roll out that new handbook for all the team members working with Craig and Kim. Having done similar roll-outs several times in the decade leading up to it, I had a picture in my mind of what to expect - and I dreaded it! While my goal w...
Having been a few years since I handled all aspects of human resources for an organization on a daily basis, and never dealing with an ownership transition, I left that initial dinner meeting with a list of items Iā€™d need to dig into prior to their upcoming acquisition date. As much as I never liked...
I wrapped up Leading With A Clear Purpose by sharing how having our own extremely clear purpose helped us push through the Covid mandates that prevented us from capitalizing on the momentum we had built in our business going into 2020 and doing much billable work for anyone in the second half of tha...
As I opened the second part of Leading With a Clear Purpose, I made a strong case for how much each of us are attracted to being part of something that matters. Iā€™m convinced that this applies to everyone at any level of any organization. I realize that there are plenty of folks who do what they do,...
On October 6, 2014, I started working for a new organization for the first time since I was 19 years old. Truth be told, I thought I would spend the rest of my career there. I was doing similar work to what I had done in manufacturing but this was for a family-owned business with just under fifty em...
If we think back to how we started this look at Leadership Misunderstood, the biggest myths weā€™ve taken aim at here were few but extremely common:
- People automatically follow a business owner, executive, manager (or whatever other title you want to insert here) because their paycheck depends on i...
