In last weeks #GCDrive class I touched on a lot of the topics that have been featured as blog posts here. To aid my new Guiding Coalition members with taking their new topics to heart, I thought I would recycle some of the old posts. At some point last week I got off on a […]
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A home without books is like a room without windows.” – H. G. Rickover Maybe it’s because I’ve just finished Senge’s The Fifth Discipline, but I’ve begun to notice–more than I ever did before–who does and doesn’t have books featured prominently in their offices. I know I have a book obsession, so the shelves upon
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Wow! What a busy day…launched GC Drive week training, kept my voice going throughout the day (something that was not a given before the day began) and had great participation from the class all day. Then I took a quick trip to Seattle to meet up with like thinkers (Michael Cheveldave, Hilbert Robinson, Steve Holt,
Those who work to solve problems are more highly valued that those who merely label them.” – Robert Mager and Peter Pipe in Analyzing Performance Problems This week, so long as I get my voice back, I’ll have the privilege to provide three days of training to a highly motivated group of problem solvers. I
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One of our weaknesses, though, is that we are not in the habit of purposeful action. All too often, we don’t consider what we’re trying to accomplish with our actions. We typically don’t put much time into considering why we think a specific action will lead to a specific result. We don’t ask ourselves often
You can be tired of fighting and take a rest so you can pick the fight back up another day. …or… You can be tired of fighting and give up your principles to just get along. Rest to fight another day. Don’t give up.
According to Gallup’s Strengths Finder 2.0 test, my top five strengths are: Maximizer Strategic Arranger Learner Activator I’ve been putting them all into play this week, at work and at home. The effort is leaving me at times exhausted and at other times enlivened. Right now, exhausted is winning. What are your top five strengths
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To practice a profession one must have acquired mastery of an academic discipline as well as a technique for applying this special knowledge to the problems of everyday life. A profession is therefore intellectual in content, practical in application.” – H. G. Rickover There isn’t one accepted profession that seems to appropriately “fit” what it
