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In my work I travel a lot. I just got out of the car of my most recent Uber experience. However, in my 20 minute ride, I was educated and inspired. Not a common experience. A bit of a background. I have spoken Spanish for 40 years. Love the language. Know the struggle it is to dominat

I remember when I was younger, New Years seemed like a novel thing. It was a New Year! Something to be excited about; however, I found that there was a certain routine attitude I adopted to New Years. It had been long enough for me to realize how many resolutions I’d broken thro

The challenge: make one change that will make you more fulfilled in the work place. This challenge should be exciting. It’s permission to change something you can change. If you’re starving everytime they require you to stay after for a meeting on Tuesday afternoons, then

Leaders are most successful when they focus outward — to strengthen and encourage, to improve and construct. While there are many definitions of the word, leadership, one used by the leadership guru John Maxwell is “leadership is influence – nothing more, nothing les

On January 3, just four days ago, the world lost a game-changing leader at age 87. Few people can say they changed the way the world saw things. But that can be said of Herb Kelleher, the co-founder and former CEO of Southwest Airlines. There are few people who have not been touched b

Earlier this week I asked you to search for people who seemed to love their jobs. I hope you asked around. Some people might have just been having a good day, but some might have suprised you. I found in my looking and searching that the majority of the people who seemed to love their

Welcome to a great new year! I look forward to working with you via these twice-a-week messages. We all want to love where we work. To wake up with excitement about who you will see, how you will resolve problems, who you will help. We all crave validation from what we do. However, so

It has been decades since the initial release of Stephen Covey’s classic, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Habit Seven, Sharpen the Saw, is the topic of today’s post and my gift to you. I work with many of you on a regular basis. I observe how you pour your hea

We live in a world that is becoming less and less acountable and placing more and more situational blame. It is now easier than ever to say things without consequence and post things without personal repercussion. However, leadership is personal. It is not a unending void you dump you

“We were walking along the street discussing people we were working with in the city of Smolensk, Russia. I expressed my frustrations about multiple individuals and my good friend subtly mentioned that if I was calling everyone else the problem, the problem was most likely me