Picking up on Chet's call in his latest blog to ACT, I'd like to recommend an action that all of us who lead anybody or anything need to do right now: Scrap you current plan for 2009 and start over. If your fiscal year is this calendar year, you started thinking about this year last … Continue reading Abhor the Vacuum
Category: Vision
Four Eyes
I'm myopic, and have been since I was young. It's a fancy word for being nearsighted. I can still read without needing eyeglasses, but I need the specs for driving, sports, and for figuring out who's coming towards me down a long hallway. Kids call other kids who need glasses "Four Eyes!" This week, I … Continue reading Four Eyes
Perfectly Designed
I've been scrounging through some old, musty, dusty files lately and found something that you, our dear readers, may gain some value from. It's an old quote from an old dead guy that always gets me thinking... "Every organization is perfectly designed to achieve the results it gets." Say what??!! "Every organization is perfectly designed … Continue reading Perfectly Designed
Resolved: You and I will make it a “Happy New Year”
Good morning to you all from this little corner of the Band! If you happened to see it, 2009 dawned here in Central Ohio with a shimmering curtain of high wispy clouds bathed in pink, purple and rose. What a great start to the new year! Did you have fun last night? Did you watch … Continue reading Resolved: You and I will make it a “Happy New Year”
Think of the BTL Band…
If you buy the idea that we need to think of fear as a drug, here's a hopeful and encouraging AND. Research done independently by Stanley Milgram, an American, and Solomon Asch, a Polish Jew, gives convincing evidence that we are easily swayed by the group. Especially swayed by the figure of authority. This … Continue reading Think of the BTL Band…
What to do NOW (Chapter 3: Dreams ‘R’ Us)
For those of you who have concluded that the current economy requires nothing more of you than survival tactics in the next three weeks, to close the year as best you can, without regard for the future much beyond 12/31/08, you can stop reading this right now, and get back to work. No sense wasting … Continue reading What to do NOW (Chapter 3: Dreams ‘R’ Us)
Things to do NOW. (Chapter One)
I have a friend in the Chicago area named Al Johnson. Al’s an Episcopal priest about my age who’s built a dynamic and growing congregation--a committed Christian community--at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Barrington, Illinois. Al is destined to be a bishop soon because he is a real leader who believes. He also shoots a … Continue reading Things to do NOW. (Chapter One)
BUILT TO LEAD 