Realigning Your Goals
As the Quarantine keeps slowly moving forward, we must continue working on finding the right and best ways to use our time.
Work on You
We can sit around and worry about COVID, what ailments we have, the government, allergy season and so many other things. However, worrying is a complete and utter waste of time and energy.
Recovery Thinking
Waiting to see how bad things get before you figure out how you want to respond to things is a losing proposition. We usually don’t make our best decisions under the pressure of having to make the decisions right away.
Leading Your Team Through Uncertainty
The key to having a great plan is to consider what is next, and what we would do “if”. The magic lives in the word “if” is truly breathtaking.
Coronovirus: 3 Things You Can Do Today
This week, the topic on everyone’s mind is COVID-19, or Coronavirus.
Data for Hiring
One of the hardest parts of leading any organization is hiring great talent.
The Value of Training
Most organizations and leaders have absolutely no idea how to properly train and develop their staff; they weren’t properly taught themselves.
Respect is Earned, Not Given?
Is respect earned, or given? For your own personal experiment, try this little exercise. Instead of waiting for people around you to “earn” your respect, lead yourself by giving them your respect first until and unless they show you a reason to do things differently. Give people your respect, and I bet most people will return the same to you.
Perseverance: A Will to Continually Improve
About 8 years ago my wife and I decided to take our then 5 and 3-year old on a hike up the trail near Rattlesnake Lake in Washington State.
Back to the Basics: Plan – Do – Check – Act
I was facilitating a Kaizen event with a client when a member of the team entered the room visibly upset about something.
Lean Six Sigma
I was recently reading through the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) forum and came across a thread titled “What is Lean Six Sigma?”
Value Add vs. Non-Value Add: The Power of One Question
A few weeks ago, I was faced with the daunting task of moving across the United States with my family of four, two cats, a litter box, and everything we own in our Toyota Sienna minivan.
How's Your Vision?
I remember when I first realized I needed to get my vision checked. I was about 28 years old and I was driving home on the interstate at night.
A Culture of “Mistakes”
While working 2nd shift at Toyota I took the opportunity to eat lunch with my son at his school.
Hitting the Reset Button
Where are you at in your journey? In your Life, your Business, with your Family and Friends? Are you Happy, truly Happy?
Overcoming Obstacles
I have a strong respect for heights…in other words, I’m afraid of heights. It isn’t so much the height itself as it is the potential to fall.
5 Steps to Creating an Awesome Culture
We all know that culture matters. Drucker is famously quoted with the phrase “culture eats strategy for breakfast”