Happy Fourth of July my friends! As we ready for Fourth of July celebrations, let me leave you with a thought to ponder. On July 4th, especially in the patriotic and explosion-happy Bremerton, Washington, we love the fizzling fuse of a firework because it promises a rocket launch and triumph blast and boom. Contrast that […]
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.” – George Washington Happy 4th of July week! I’ll be fighting for truth while driving change. How will you be spending your week?
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If we changed the ways we talk about learning, would people would try to learn more? Too often I hear people say, “What training should we give them?” or “What learning should we provide them?” Why aren’t we saying, “We’re going to do X in our organization. I learned about how to do X at….and
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During last night’s Leadership Kitsap Class of 2013 Graduation, the Leadership Kitsap Alumni Association–as they do each year–recognized one alumni with an award for continued community service. I was surprised and honored when Leadership Kitsap Alumni Association President, Connie Mueller, began reading a nomination about work with Bremerton Beyond Accessible Play and awarded me the
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When knowledge becomes impossible to acquire, then it is customary for us to turn decisions over to a higher authority, and like it or not, that is pretty much what most Americans have done…most of us rely on our government to distill the salient issues and act on our behalf, which, as we found out,
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Today I have the opportunity to share with several hundred people four key concepts behind creating changes you want to see in the world and six tactics for getting past “No,” when making the changes we want to see in the world. For those of you would could attend the training session (or for those
In Hans Christian Andersen’s legendary tale, The Emperor’s New Clothes, a vain emperor is made the fool by two scheming tailors who play on the emperor’s vanity and sell him a suit of invisible cloth. The tailors claim only those “worthy” souls can see the cloth, hence binding the emperor and his most loyal followers
The other night I heard time stomping across the world…For once, I had a sense of movement as if time were really passing before me. This night the future came to me without any desire on my part…When certain things happen that we think ourselves powerless to resist, we sometimes jump in and help them
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Kevin Dooley via Compfight It seems many people have an overwhelming misconception that the future–their future–is an ordered thing that they chug their way into like an engine loaded with cars down a study railroad track. Can you see the flaw in that way of thinking? Before you can steam down the track someone
If it is the first time you’re doing something in your organization, there won’t be a neat little plan for how to do it. You’ll actually have to think your own way through it while the leaders think their way through too. Just because they don’t have everything all figured out doesn’t mean they are
