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.
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.
“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 […]
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 […]
(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. […]
In 1661, Frances Hawkins wrote a book, Youth’s Behavior, Or, Decencie in Conversation Among Men. It was popular as a text in the education of young men. Notably among them was George Washington, the “Father of our Country”, who, as a youth, copied Hawkins’ 110 guidelines for maintaining respect and […]
“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 […]
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 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 […]
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. […]
I recently had a first in a lifetime experience! Pete Buttigieg, a Presidential candidate, was in town. A friend, who thinks highly of him, invited us to go with her to hear him speak. We went! It was held downtown at an event facility and there were several hundred, maybe […]
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