Category: Leadership
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Daily Deliberation: 6 August 2020
Back in the 1980s there was a big anti-drug campaign with lots of commercials. Many of you might remember the one comparing your brain on drugs to an egg in a frying pan…seems like yesterday. There was another commercial with a father who had just found some hidden drugs, asking his son if they were…
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Daily Deliberation: 4 August 2020
Being the father of 3 grown boys, I’ve been known to “lecture” them a lot about life. Having recently retired from the Air Force and being on the job hunt, I’m having to remind myself to practice what I have preached. One of my “lectures” focused on the importance of setting goals and how that…
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Daily Deliberation: 3 August 2020
What does this quote from Alexander the Great mean to you? To me, it means we have to be strong as leaders. We can’t be afraid to stand up for our team and to our team. I recently watched as a supervisor chastised his subordinate and then flip-flopped when he got push-back. If he could…
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Daily Deliberation: 2 August 2020
One of the hardest things to do as a leader is to stand in front of your team and tell them you failed. However, we all make mistakes and need to own them quickly. Once we acknowledge our missteps, we can learn from them and move onto a smarter path for the next attempt. Our…
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Daily Deliberation: 31 July 2020
My first day of work as a MSgt, I was looking for all of my minions to serve me. Instead, I walked into the office and my boss tore into me about something that happened on the other side of the flightline on a different shift. I learned very quickly (literally day one) that I…
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Daily Deliberation: 30 July 2020
We’ve all heard the phrase “there is no I in Team”. It’s been said a million times and had a million different spins or interpretations…here’s a million +1. I was going to try and go literal and if you spell the word in all caps…TEAM, it could be said that it has 13 “I’s” in…
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3 Vital Lessons from The Little Engine That Could
I have no idea why I Googled the Little Engine That Could yesterday…but I did. Watty Piper shared a story with us in 1930 that we’ve all heard at least once but I’ve gotta tell ya, I had this story wrong. Allow me to give a brief summary: It starts with a regular engine carrying…
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Daily Deliberation: 28 July 2020
While listening to an audio book by Jeff Sutherland he was discussing about how he can transform how teams do things and then how the teams take care of transforming individuals within the teams. It reminded me of my days in Little League baseball. Every team seems to have that one child, let’s admit it,…
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Daily Deliberation: 22 July 2020
Many of us look at being a leader like Maximus Decimus Meridius in the movie Gladiator. We lead the charge into battle and are revered for our courage and battlefield prowess. Because of our technical abilities, we are usually promoted to positions of leadership. However, if we get into the weeds too often, we are…
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Daily Deliberation: 19 July 2020
I know I can’t add any value to this quote by Mother Teresa. Instead of this being a cute saying, we need to view this is a call to action. Look at all of the division in our society. We have proven for the last several decades that we can set aside our differences and…
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