“Hey, thanks for making time to meet me this morning! How have you been?”He was a...
Leadership topic - renew
Renew is step seven of the empower framework: leaders who renew recharge themselves and motivate teams to continually reflect on successes. Focus on team and personal renewal and reflection. Collects systemic feedback, refines project processes and most important, rewards excellence among employees and teams; works on compensating for weakness and limits; Maintains a conscious work/life balance.
Roadblock – Is closed to learning new personal, interpersonal, managerial and leadership skills, doesn’t share/celebrate successes with team members. Burns out teammates and self.
Start with Faith, Thanks or Alive, then see how it plays out across the Pearl Jam series.
Given to fly… which partner keeps you Alive?
What partner keeps you Alive?Both of our predecessors quit. Mine, in Product Management, and his,...
Nothing as it seems… can you manage Alive?
managing to stay Alive…“Semiconductor memory will never fly in space.” The PhD in our...
Unfinished enough to engage Alive?
How do you engage to stay Alive?Alive has a special meaning when you are the short kid… and the...
What helps you renew to Begin Again?
It was December… the needle on my gas gauge had dropped below empty an hour back… at...
renew your Mind… or…
The worst stretch of my career had no name... ...for about a year. I was leading in technology, at...
execute when You Oughta Know…
Nobody clapped when I logged the last of the 2,500 hours... By the time the letters MCC arrived,...
letting your Mind wonder…
I cheered for a middle seat on a red-eye from SFO... ...before that, stopping felt like losing. I...
Mind observations…
Mind observing your ego? Bring your family so we can get to know you ... the words that stood...
What partner eases your Mind?
I have not created anything alone since I was 14... Craig is the reason a lot of this work exists....
Mind management
Mind management… A bear walked across my deck in Virginia… I stood perfectly still ... completely...
Safe to engage your Mind?
what engages your Mind? I played it safe for 2 years...Bass, in my church band. I knew the part...
A renewing Outcome
The summer of 1976 was full of global events. Bur for me, I had 2 remaining Outcomes to close before heading off to college. First, ironically, I had gotten good enough at Student Congress – an actual NFL event – to qualify for the National Debate Tournament in Colorado Springs. Second, I had been selected as an exchange student for the Lions Club to spend 6 weeks in Sweden. The bad news is that those events overlapped.
… and the renewal of Virtue…
Declaring that you have a faith stance opens you up for a lot of attacks, some deserved, and some that are not, but all are worth considering. Can you actually be ready to make an account for what you believe? And as someone said once, if you were in a court of law, could the actually convict you of your Faith using evidence?













