Being "different" was a core competency of not just me, but my boss for this season, and probably...
Leadership topic - engage
Engage is step one of the empower framework: leaders who engage lead in clear communication throughout their organizations. Leads with questions, with an open personal presence and outstanding communications skills. Communicates a compelling and inspired shared vision or sense of core purpose; Creates a climate in which people want to do their best; Is effective in a variety of formal presentation settings; one-on-one, small, and large groups;
Roadblock – Always thinks they have the right and only answer; focuses on the answer, always the smartest person in the room
Start with Positive Intelligence, Change or Preparation, then see how it plays out across the Eric Clapton series.
SO… engage with Change?
As you might have guessed from last week, despite saying we would never move to DC, by the Summer...
Hopeful engagement…
Our little card was starting to get some notice across IBM, and for our little team, I was...
engaging with Fun…
Where does Fun begin?We were into our second week of touring Europe with the kids. I realized...
Opportunity to engage…
Some of my first memories are musical - playing records at 78 because the would go faster 😉 And...
engaging with guts…
I had already planned to get back to harder rock this week - I fake the love of the others music...
What Feat engages your Feet?
Feet engage for different reasons...Happy...
… the renewal of Patient…
It was the classic corporate meeting, conducted in a classic large conference room on the West...
…executed by Patience…
Engineering is a field that requires systematic thinking, applied linearly, and methodologically...
…the wonder of Patient…
My sons were musing with me about the continuing dominance of the USB interface on computers. The...
observing Patience…
Our boss had hired a consultant to come in "help our Team be more productive". It was like the...
Partners for Patience…
We were in a bad place. We had sold software that we had barely started writing, and the customer...
Patient management…
Those two words have NEVER been used with me... until I had to. It was the only thing that would...
Patiently engaging…
You may not realize it, but not only have I been working on an artist each week, but these themes...













