Empowering Leadership and Music Articles
Each article uses our empower framework that we also use for our leadership coaching services.
Feats of renewal…
Where are your Feet going?My new profession is a lot like teaching Sunday School. You enter someone's life and, for a season, are with them for a part of their journey. ...
Feet executing Feats
How do your Feet execute?I am pretty sure this is the longest I have had my Feet in the same place... probably since I was born. I am taking yet another class, this one on "The...
Feats of wonder…
wonder what Feat you will be impacted by?I was wearing a baseball cap with NASA on it, which matched the T-shirt of the young man checking us out at Costco. We naturally struck...
observing your Feet’s Feats…
Are your Feet going where you want to go?Many people are starting to reconnect to their initial goals for their lives. Being forced to actually hold still for Covid, I can...
The Feat your partners perform…
What Feat will you do for a partner...High School Debate was something you could not do by yourself. You had a partner, and you won or lost together, and there is something...
How are your Feet managed?
Do you manage on the wrong Feet?Breakdowns are typically the places where great stories start... not end. It is the realization that something is not working, or you are not...
What Feat engages your Feet?
Feet engage for different reasons...Happy "Federal-Sponsored-Holiday-for-Italian-Americans-now-controversial-because-of-who-they-chose-to- honor." Columbus Day was on-and-off...
… the renewal of Patient…
It was the classic corporate meeting, conducted in a classic large conference room on the West Coast. All of the officers of the company were gathered to hear from our new CEO. ...
…executed by Patience…
Engineering is a field that requires systematic thinking, applied linearly, and methodologically to problems. The best compliment you can pay them is using the phrase "reduced...
…the wonder of Patient…
My sons were musing with me about the continuing dominance of the USB interface on computers. The "Serial Bus" was originally looked down on - it was slow, it was "only serial",...
observing Patience…
Our boss had hired a consultant to come in "help our Team be more productive". It was like the LAST thing I really wanted to do. First, we were not a team - more a collection...
Partners for Patience…
We were in a bad place. We had sold software that we had barely started writing, and the customer was figuring it out through a series of conversations that had made it up the...
Patient management…
Those two words have NEVER been used with me... until I had to. It was the only thing that would work, at scale, with a global team. Being random and abstract is lots of fun, and...
Patiently engaging…
You may not realize it, but not only have I been working on an artist each week, but these themes have also been building. So after Virtue, comes Patience... well, after someone...
The renewal of Delegation…
If you feel bad about how effective you are with Delegation, look at God. As we like to say these days "... you had one job.....". He set up... wait for it.. the ENTIRE...
Delegation execution…
"Every time I give them something to do, I have to redo it. Spelling errors, grammar, all of it!" Gently I suggested ... "... you have trained them to do that". "OH no! I am...
The wonder of Delegation…
Watching my grandkids, you watch as they slowly begin to control the world around them. Their first tool is crying, which puzzled young parents eventually figure out the...
What do you observe in Delegation?
My love of jazz was cultivated over years, noticing that I studied better with songs that didn't have lyrics. Not that I don't appreciate great lyrics, but it frees my mind to...
Your partners in Delegation…
In the process of looking for a new Senior VP of our business, I was on the interview team. While I would not be reporting to this person, he would be leading the business teams...
Managing Delegation….
"Delegation is a math problem. If you can figure out how to have 5 others do the work you could do even 50 % as well as you, you will be 250% more effective." That was the way...