Author: John Rue

The melody line of Practice #11 and Practice #21 and Practice #121 for three different teams this month was the same. The team in Practice #11 identified fortresses. The team in Practice #21 identified fears. The team in Practice #121 identified the enemy of noise. The common melody line of the three teams was they … Continue reading OPUS Focus

Ever since I was a little kid with my sisters chalking out streets for riding bikes in the driveway, I've always wanted my own traffic light.    My dream came true last week when my brother-in-law gave me a little plug-in model from his garage sale.     It didn't take long to put it to use … Continue reading Going “green”

They don't belong to any one else. No one gave them to you. They are yours. Own them. As an observer shadowing Toto and the century practice team yesterday, they were talking about trust and the importance of becoming a master repairman if you want to be part of a high performing team. When a … Continue reading Own Your Feelings

There is an ancient Scripture that teaches, "My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, because The Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son." Love DISCIPLINES.    Discipline is an act of LOVE. It always has, … Continue reading Love DISCIPLINES

Toto, you're gonna just LOVE this article that appeared in the sports section of today's Columbus Dispatch ... what a great illustration of how teammates speak the truth in LOVE  ...and FIGHT for good performance -- CCDR.    Read below about the highest form of trust, team CHEMISTRY...and what it looks like to cultivate FLOW (even … Continue reading “We’re Good Now, Right?” PART 2: aka What a good “van fight” looks like

It's said that character is 90% of leadership.   So to start the year, what a good reminder from p.111 of our 8 Essentials of Leading Teams by Os Guinness.   Enjoy.... The route, which we will take here, is to trace the development of the strongest Western position on cultivating character—the biblical heritage, both Jewish and … Continue reading A New Year’s Re-Solution…

Holidays get more special every year as the "speed of life" increases. When we were young, time started with a crawl....even when we started running around time was still "SLOW -- Children Playing" ....hitting the school zone of life at 20 MPH before picking up speed through our 30s & 40s into mid-life.   Holiday … Continue reading “Do you want it? YES or NO?”

This is an "and" to Toto's recent blog about Thank God and Justice For All. If you are human, there is something about those two blogs you found disturbing. They were written to be disturbing -- to jolt us out of our comfort zone, to surface what we are feeling and to consider WHY in … Continue reading “ONE”….with Liberty AND Justice for All