Calgon Take Me Away
Ok, a dated reference, sure but it is precisely how I feel being out of that last class. I’ve been out for 2 days and my goodness I feel good. I’ve been loading up my paperwork and plans for the coming dissertation class and reviewing my drafts. I’m not ready to get another draft going [...]
Visioning with People with Vision
One of the things that I struggle with both professionally and in my doctoral studies is being in conversations with people who lack the skills needed or experience needed to see the vision and help craft the way. The red flag for me is someone who asks for your need, fails to respond to queues [...]
War Movies and Leadership
I couldn’t sleep last weekend. I’d had a rough Friday and rough week with people who exhibited little or no good leadership ability. It got me wondering if there were any real leaders left anymore of if we’d commoditized leadership for the sake of corporate-speak. I was up most of the weekend wondering about why [...]
Vote for My Pic on FailBlog.org
This is a little sideline of the normal post but I was selected for failblog.org’s voting page. The picture is one I took some time ago but held onto for the comedic value.
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Studying While Distracted
It is no secret that I am a full-time employee and full-time student. Combine that with being a family man and community servant and there is no end to the distractions that can take me away from my classes and dissertation. The last few weeks have been filled with re-orgs, re-positioning, shortened time lines with [...]
An Expansive Vocabulary
All my life, I’ve been told to expand my vocabulary. The reasoning ranges from the fun of new words to the importance of being intelligent. As of late, I’ve been told that the words I use intimidate those that do not have expansive vocabularies. The feedback has come in combination with other feelings that the [...]
Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way
Throughout my career I’ve been exposed to various sorts of management and leadership. The exposure isn’t limited to the working arena either, many of my classes and studies have included intense examination of leaderhsip and management practice. But experience is always the best teacher.
Over the last months, I’ve come across a few management styles that [...]
Managing Time
Friday I had occasion to sit through a FranklinCovey’s Focus Time Management Webinar. I’ve been through time management seminars and coaching before and found most of it behavioral modification in nature. In fact, I classified a previous session leader the Time Management Polizei. Her methods were bent on showing me what I did wrong, force [...]
Bob Brown
I went to Toastmasters last night for the first time in months. I’ve been traveling, working late nights, and just suffering from crisis overload. Not to mention just having a lack of desire to come back to the club and meetings. Last year my friend Bob Brown passed away. Bob had been up and down [...]
Sorry About That…
What a crazy time its been. I’ve had so little time between taking a new job and wrestling with negative issue after negative issue in other aspects of my life. I’m not one to rant on my blog, so here is a bullet list of things people should know.
When you tell someone the furnace is [...]