by dustin | Jan 16, 2018 | leadership
Todd Henry writes and speaks about creativity, productivity and passion at work. He is a blogger, podcaster, presenter and author of four books. In short, Todd describes himself as “an arms dealer for the creative revolution.” I personally feel like I have...
by dustin | Jan 11, 2018 | leadership
When I was a kid, we lived in a rural area of Oklahoma. We were out in the country, about halfway between two towns. One day, a nearby home caught fire. Both fire departments from the neighboring towns arrived to fight the blaze. It wasn’t clear which...
by dustin | Jan 9, 2018 | leadership
“Hold your horses!” People use this phrase telling us to wait. To hold ourselves back. But we are all too willing to reign ourselves in. We already find plenty of reasons to stay in the gate instead of throwing ourselves into the race. Fear of...
by dustin | Jan 5, 2018 | leadership
You probably consider yourself to be intellectually honest. In reality, it is hard work to deal with our intellectual dishonesty. Wikipedia describes intellectual honesty this way: Intellectual honesty is an applied method of problem solving, characterized by an...
by dustin | Jan 4, 2018 | leadership
In eighth grade, I walked into the school cafeteria and decided I was going to do something different. Where students sat during lunchtime indicated how popular you were and which group you belonged to. There were groups for jocks, cheerleaders, band members, skaters...
by dustin | Jan 3, 2018 | leadership
Lots of people get sick this time of year. The combination of gathering and sharing food with large groups, along with colder weather keeping us inside, increases the odds of spreading something contagious. We use a lot of different phrases for being sick. I caught a...