Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It […]
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Yesterday Steve Holt presented our topic at the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO) International conference in Baden, Germany. Jack Vinson was gracious enough to write a post about what he learned. The core message of “Fire the Consultants” wasn’t to actually to fire the consultants, but to stop what consultants are usually pushed
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In 2001 I joined Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and became a nuclear engineer in the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program (NNPP). I specialized in working with reactor shielding. In 2004 I found and devoured Theodore Rockwell’s book, The Rickover Effect. Published in the early 90s, the book tells stories from the launch of the NNPP and
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My son just finished his first season as a little league player. That’s a common statement to hear from the mother of a young boy, yet it is made truly special if you know that my son, Teddy, has spina bifida. This spring, Teddy and several of his friends got their first chance to play
When Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, a young boy in Wisconsin saw the news reports. Twenty-four years later, that no-longer-little boy climbed the mountain and looked down into the amazing crater created in 1980. This photo, of my husband atop the mountain, was taken on September 11, 2004. On October 11th, just
It seems lately that I’ve had no time for blogging and yet all the time in the world for other things. I don’t know about you, but I’m almost always harder on myself for what I haven’t done than anyone else is on me for what they think I haven’t done. I think about what
You can tell you’re having an impact on an organization when your words bounce back at you. Now, they don’t have to be your original words. They can be concepts you’ve borrowed from other people. Yet, you’ll know you are having an impact when you hear those words you’ve uttered spreading out through an organization.
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin I’m sure there are changes you’ve been longing to make in your organization, your community, or your life that you’ve been putting off. Think of today’s quote of the week and challenge yourself to face
