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Last night we kicked off practice with a team of grass kickers. OSU womens soccer is a great team led by a great leader. They are worth a watch.  Last year was sweet sixteen. This year? Who knows.  Sports. You gotta love the unknown. Or you'll go crazy with the chaos that comes when injuries, … Continue reading Volitional…

Belief is a spectrum, not binary. It's not a question of do I believe in this teammate or not? The better question is do I have enough belief in them? And if not, what's the truth I need to tell them about why that is? In a practice recently we unpacked someone whose direct report … Continue reading Belief is a spectrum

Philip, father of Alexander the Great, thought one way. Louis XIV, thought differently. Both were crowned King. Philip, a Macedonian, lacked formal education and proper manners, thought "early and often" about his eventual death. In fact, he hired a servant to remind him daily of his mortality. The servants job was to utter these words at … Continue reading As late as possible…

Keep working is one of my mantras. I remind myself to keep working when I ride, write, read, exercise my core, and when strengthening my BTL CORE. Keep working is my way of telling myself quitting is NOT an option. The dude on the far left is jmo. He’s battled melanoma for years. Was told … Continue reading Keep working…

Fine wine gets better with age; stinky cheese, not so much. Too many leaders treat problems like fine wine. Problems are stinky cheese - they don’t age well. You likely are waiting for the perfect time to address your systems “problem or problem child.” The perfect time never arrives. Deal with it. Now. You’ve been … Continue reading Fine wine…

Research shows that quality of work improves when people are given the opportunity to fail. They are willing to DO more and learn more from the doing. When they believe failure will be punished, they play it safe and don’t actually iterate or evolve. Failure without learning breeds more failure. Success without learning breeds stagnation … Continue reading Fail more

Rarely do you feel your way into action. However, when you choose to ACT, you often find the feeling you were after. ACT your way into feeling not the other way 'round. Productive ACTion (PA) is the one you want, friends. Here's the truth about changing how you're feeling. ACT your way... God, help me … Continue reading ACT your way…

Leadership IS about power. But not the way many practice it. It’s not about hoarding power, grabbing it, retaining it or wielding it. It’s about EMpowering others. How much can you give away? How much can you disperse? How much power can you let go of and allow to reside with your people? Do they … Continue reading Power