In work and relationships, clean-ups are essential when there is a negative emotional impact on someone. Acknowledge the wrong doing and work to clean it up.
Currently browsing: Craig Clark
What has the Current Environment Revealed About Your Culture?
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast!” …is a statement attributed to Peter Drucker around 2011, although it has appeared in documents as early as the late 1980’s. But, what does that mean? It does not diminish the importance of strategy, it just underlines the dominant power of Culture. Anaya Rose wrote […]
Where am I Standing?
In Response or Reaction? You may remember from previous blog posts, this quote from Viktor Frankl: “Between stimulus and response, there is a space, in the space we have the power and the freedom to choose our response. In the choice lies freedom and growth!” – from A Man’s Search for […]
Respect Confidentiality – FOW #16
(repost from March, 2018) In my professional life, I find it essential to keep my private conversations with others confidential, unless I have explicit permission to share what we discussed. This has trained me to confirm with others if the information in our conversation is private or public. The best […]
Humans Have An Internal Guidance System
(photo credit Red Wolf Cinema) While the world was passing around cards with hearts, flowers, candy, and gifts for Valentine’s Day, the Momentum team was producing the Third Annual Leadership Summit. On this annual day for expressing affection, we took the opportunity to explore matters of the heart at work. […]
Progress, Like Performance, is a State of Mind
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw For the past several years, I have been grappling with my realization that pretty much everything I think, and everything that we think, is made up, which is to say: Whatever […]
Engagement at Work
What would make the difference to your team? In Manly P. Hall’s The Secret Teachings of All Ages, Hall reflects on the higher nature of Man, characterized by clarity, Spirit, grace and compassion, whereas the lower nature of man is characterized by fear, superstition and ignorance. Whether consciously or unconsciously, […]
Who Do We Listen To?
Who is Calling the Shots Here? Apparently, our internal dialogue, the internal running conversation, has been running for a very long time. The Toltecs call this “the Narrator,” which kind of sums up that role. It is constantly talking to us, advising, judging and yes, criticizing. Modern Definition:“An internal monologue, also […]
A Review: Acting with Integrity (Fundamental 1)
“We look for three things when we hire people. We look for intelligence, we look for initiative or energy, and we look for integrity. And if they don’t have the latter, the first two will kill you, because if you’re going to get someone without integrity, you want them lazy and dumb.” Warren […]
The Economics of Decency in the Desert
My wife Marlene, who is also my business partner, and our daughters Christa Marie and Caitlyn Rose, both in their young twenties, just returned from our first trip to Burning Man. Burning Man is in its 39th year and currently held annually in the Black Rock desert North of Reno. […]