Empowering Leadership and Music Articles
Each article uses our empower framework that we also use for our leadership coaching services.
The wonder of Thanks…
Fannie Mae was located off of Wisconsin Ave in a HUGE palace of a building - fitting for the “home of housing”, but imposing and a little stifling. As such I had a regular habit...
Thanks-observing
Happy Thanksgiving! ….and, of COURSE I have a story - actually more than one. Come on - it is 250 days in a row - today, and that doesn’t count the 175 I wrote before. You may...
Who are you Thanks partners?
When I arrived at Fannie in 1992, there were about 400 developers/contractors… and we used about 400 development tools. Now, innovation and creativity are important, but at the...
Can Thanks manage?
Before I left IBM, my new Boss needed me to come to a very important kickoff meeting before I was supposed to start. The good news is that the meeting had some people from IBM...
What Thanks engage you?
Leaving something is never easy, particularly when I hadn't actually looked for a job in over 13 years. I also had to navigate telling my parents the IBM that provided our family...
Can Change renew?
Our offices in Crystal City were magnificent, with my boss having a great view of the city. It was a small team, so we would gather around his desk and he would engage each of...
Change execution…
The whole concept of LeadingWithMusic is to talk about using the power of Music to Change the way we think and act as Leaders and people, taking you on a journey linking the 2...
The Change of wonder…
Today's story starts in a Maryland suburb with a kid graduating from high school and started at a local college. There he started working on building his first guitar from...
What does Change observe?
So at this point, we were trying to get a staid Federal manufacturing facility to become "lean" and cost-efficient to produce commercial products. At the same time, we were...
Change partners…
If you ever are asked to work a business show, my advice would be say NO. You stand in a booth and answer questions from people who are never actually interested, and/or handing...
Do you manage Change, or….
Being "different" was a core competency of not just me, but my boss for this season, and probably why we bonded so well initially. He could have easily selected an office in FSD...
SO… engage with Change?
As you might have guessed from last week, despite saying we would never move to DC, by the Summer we had made the decision to make a Change and permanently leave Texas for the DC...
The renewal of Hope..
Transitioning the project from Research to FSD included my boss changing into our division, and physically moving from New York to DC where our headquarters was. His choice of...
executing Hope…
Having already worked multiple business shows for IBM on the Space Program, I was the natural person to hit the road for demos once we had enough hardware and software to do...
The wonder of Hope…
IBM had always been involved with the American government marketplace and formed the Federal Systems Division in 1957 to give a special team for that focus. Initially working on...
observing Hope…
Now surfing across the top of IBM, I had access to VP's and Senior Vice President's who literally managed over 100,000 people. It was a long ride up through the many layers of...
What do you Hope for in partners?
While I was helping get the Intel card up and moving through IBM, our specific challenge was to build something that had multiple processors. The idea was to demonstrate that...
managing Hope…
It was always dicey traveling out of the Ithaca area in the winter, which is basically not July 😉 We were heading to a meeting down at IBM Research in late January to discuss...
Hopeful engagement…
Our little card was starting to get some notice across IBM, and for our little team, I was assigned to go out and meet with customers. As such I had been having conversations...
How to renew your Fun?
The center of the IBM universe was a very small town in "upstate" New York, which I had learned meant "... everything NOT in New York City". Nestled between Valhalla, and...