February 11th, 2014
A couple of years ago, I started paying a lot of attention to how organizations make decisions and deal with disagreement. I had come to see it as a really reliable marker for how inclusive an organization or a team truly was. As I started paying more and more attention to decision making, I also [Read More…]
February 3rd, 2014
Greetings! I have been away for a while. I took a six week break from all things social media, and have not blogged for nearly 3 months. I have mixed feelings about coming back to Twitter and Facebook and am taking that pretty slowly, but I am excited to come back to the blog and [Read More…]
November 14th, 2013
Veterans Day is a great Facebook holiday. Facebook makes it easy for folks to remember that it is Veterans Day and makes it easy to post some thoughts or a photo related to Veterans Day. Between the Marine Corps Birthday on November 10th and Veterans Day on November 11th, my Facebook timeline really lights up [Read More…]
August 27th, 2013
One of the books that I find myself recommending a lot is Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon MacKenzie. It is a wonderfully written book touching on organizational culture, authenticity, courage, creativity, expression and other related issues. One of the stories in the book has always stuck with me, since the first time I read [Read More…]
August 21st, 2013
South by Southwest happens every year in March and it has become one of my favorite conferences to attend and speak at. Getting on the agenda as a speaker is fairly difficult…they are currently trying to sort through 3,000 proposals for the 2014 show. One of those proposals is mine and I am asking for [Read More…]
August 11th, 2013
This is the beginning of a busy season for me, and I am on the road almost constantly for the next couple of weeks. Being the emotional infant that I am, I have a natural range of about four “emotions” when I travel for work; 1- busy working, 2- busy reading, 3- busy sleeping and, [Read More…]
July 31st, 2013
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.” -Walt Whitman I am a lot of things. I am a straight, white, male living in Omaha, Nebraska. I am a business owner, a speaker and an author. I am a father, son, brother, husband, uncle and cousin. I [Read More…]
July 23rd, 2013
I am going to do some webinars. It has been on my list of things to do for a long time, but I just had not set aside the time to try and figure out the best way to go about doing it. I still have not set aside the time to do that, but [Read More…]
July 22nd, 2013
Sorry, but this post really is all about me. Some stuff I want to share… resources: Building an Inclusive Culture, a free webinar Tuesday August 6th, 12:00-1:00 pm (CST). Register here. videos I have recently released a couple of videos with discussion guides. The first is focused on authenticity, here are links to the video [Read More…]
July 1st, 2013
The other day I caught a string of tweets coming out of a conference regarding the behavior of Millennials. You know the kind of stuff I am talking about; 26% of Millennials say they are not affiliated with any religion (Pew Study 2010), 23% of Millennials think they will still be with their first employer [Read More…]