Empowering Leadership and Music Articles
Each article uses our empower framework that we also use for our leadership coaching services.
executing Retrospectively..
After 2020...I wonder what “20/20 Hindsight” means now… or 20/20 vision. With that "amazing" year firmly in the rearview mirror, Retrospectives are popping up all over the...
Retrospective wonder…
Where is your wonder?Something that we collectively lose track of as we get older is our ability to tune into our own inherent creativity. I am reminded of that with my...
observing Retrospectively…
Believing what you observe... Retrospectives are, at their heart, all about observation. It is taking time to look at what happened... compared to what you thought would happen,...
Who partners with your Retrospective?
Energy partners...As an extrovert, much of my energy comes from interacting with others. My wife is an introvert… so the rhythm of my being gone for a few days worked well...
managing your Retro-perspective
manage to Celebrate?Leadership books are always a hot topic with Coaches, and in a recent inquiry, many were bantering about this or that book that has some new insight or...
Retrospective to engage…
Particularly In 2020 - and every year-end...This week will end with probably the most anticipated change in numbers - ever. Rolling from 2020 to 2021, there will be a collective...
Unexpected renewal…
Within walking distance of Fannie was one of the best TexMex places - probably in the country, but for sure in the DC area. As such, you could walk down, have a good lunch, a...
executing Unexpectedly
Once you set your mind towards something, it actually fools you by finding more data to support that “perception”. The “red car” problem is Unexpected .. and real - once you...
wonderfully Unexpected
Merry Christmas!!! When I saw “wonder” would align with the day, I knew all was right with the world. For today is full of many miracles of wonders and love, some of the best...
observing Un-expectations..
Knowing that you need to make a change, and actually doing it are related, but take a different focus. Much of the trite advice you see, like “You should go TO something and not...
Partners in the Unexpected
Today’s lesson comes from trigonometry - and now I know I have lost most of you. Hang in there - it is not that complicated, and a better leadership lesson is “what goes up,...
Unexpected management…
Control is an elusive term in management. Computer systems are all built from “requirements” - what is known, “expected”, or assumed, and how to manage it. They only control...
engaging the Unexpected…
It is the season of Christmas Cards, the time when you see pictures of old friends, and families that share the stories of the year in pictures and letters. Some are very sparse...
If you don’t Prepare to renew….
When I get to the end of writing about an artist, there is always a tinge of remorse. Have I featured enough about them to make it worth your while to wander through their...
To Prepare to execute
In the ‘90s, the mode of communication was a “pager”, and by the time I had one, they at least had characters so it was very similar to the texts’ of today. In Ops, I was paged...
Can you Prepare wonder?
If you sized Fannie Mae on its impact, influence, and swagger in the Housing Market, it is a giant, like the huge Georgian Mansion that it occupied on Wisconsin Ave. But as a...
observing Preparation
I exited Ops to go back into the Development part of Fannie, supporting a group of reusable components that were the “secret sauce” to accelerate what you now know as “apps”. ...
Preparing to be a partner
A common thing people Prepare for is the next “promotion”. The next level up is an illusion that I have now heard hundreds describe as: “better”, “easier”, “more satisfying”,...
Preparation management
As I have gotten older, I have recognized that knowing what you don’t know… admitting it and asking for help… is a virtue that is not well recognized and not well understood. I...
engaging Preparation
If you are involved in the latest thing in IT development, you have probably heard the term “technical debt” - otherwise known as decisions made in the past to make things “easy”...