Empowering Leadership and Music Articles
Each article uses our empower framework that we also use for our leadership coaching services.
The wonder of In-Efficient…
Listen on iTunes The wonder is at this point in my story, the LAST band I would have listened to was Asleep at the Wheel. My negative framing would have been “... an...
observing Efficiently…
Listen on iTunes When I was a small baby, my parents were out visiting Mom’s folks in Lubbock, Texas. My Grandmother kept babies in her home for much of her life, and as...
partner Efficiency
Listen on iTunes One thing that was big in East Texas were formal dances. No exaggeration, there were no less than 9 formal dances… a year. In fact, the Senior Prom...
Efficient management
Listen on iTunes Breaking into the tight community that Tyler is was not something that anybody could manage Efficiently… much less an 8th grader. The money center for the...
The Efficiency of engaging
Listen on iTunes If you have noticed these postings being more coherent, better written, and easier to understand, it is due to my new partner/editor/producer. He has...
The renewal of Healing
If you needed another reason to dislike Texas, it hosts all 4 of the poisonous snakes, in addition to spiders and scorpions typical for the Southwest. East Texas was heavily...
Healing execution…
Something that gets executed along with music is dancing. And generally speaking, that involves someone of the opposite sex, which somewhere in Junior High start to appear -...
The Healing of wonder…
We moved to Florida when IBM started a facility there. Dad’s career needed a rotation through a “development lab” where he would understand what is involved in designing...
How does observing Heal?
One universal comment from people of my generation about the current times is “Thank GOODNESS there is no video to observe what we did in our youth”. As I start each week, after...
Healing partners
The first song that came on when I requested The Partridge Family is today’s offering, I’ll Meet You Halfway - perfect for the partner discussion. So exactly what does that...
managing Healing
We moved to Florida when I was 10, halfway through 6th grade. Younger than my peers by at least a year, small to begin with, from Texas, I didn’t fit in on many levels. The...
Can Healing engage?
One thing I noticed last year was how the choice of music affected my mood. It always recharges me, but some music does that in different ways. That led me to intentionally...
The renewing concept of Goals…
Wrapping up my current project, I am writing a paper to tie the software/hardware purchased back to what the organization was trying to do. Computer systems and software can do...
Could you execute these Goals?
Goals are simply statements... until they are executed, measured, and then revised. If you follow the state of the art in project management, that cycle has gotten shorter and...
wondering Goals…
It’s Kickoff season in most businesses, where Goals for this year are described in big meetings with lots of hurrahs and fanfare. In well-managed businesses, last year’s Goals...
A Goal to observe…
I started this blog to explicitly keep me from writing and commenting about politics, and I don’t plan to start now... other than to point out the songs for this week, including...
What Goals do partners have?
While we were both enjoying our classic cars, the business itself was in a tailspin. The CEO had decided that the cash cow product line needed to be rewritten in the new...
How Goals manage…
At the end of the day, Goals are made for management. This is why I find it fascinating that so few managers actually use them in a consistent way - for the teams or more...
So…will your Goals engage?
Welcome to the official start of 2021! This Monday is the first of many days that stand out on the calendar every year, and are circled with a unique energy. Hopefully, you got...
The renewal of Retrospectives…
Preparing to renew...Living in the DC area, we always had a snow/ice storm sometime in December. Set up to “work-from-home” since 1992, I stayed home and wrote reviews all...