When I was about ten years old, I lived in Warner Robins, Georgia, where my dad was stationed at the big US Air Force base. My parents signed me up for the base soccer team, which was part of a youth soccer league in the town. There was an ongoing rivalry between the base team…
I’m working with a finance organization to help them create the culture and capacity to be trusted business partners. The organization supports several diverse business units and consists of a VP, directors, managers, and staff. Their vision is to grow well beyond the traditional role of finance to be true partners leading and supporting the…
On Mother’s Day, a post of gratitude for my mom, my wife, and moms everywhere. My wife was out of town this week from Tuesday through Saturday. She was traveling on business for the first time in years to a conference. Before she left, she led me to the refrigerator to show me a crucial…
Creating context is an essential and tremendously powerful leadership and management concept to understand and to utilize. Context is defined as “the part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning”. It comes from the Latin contextere meaning to join together or to weave. The key idea…
When I was a kid, I loved to watch reruns of The Little Rascals. In my favorite episode, “Two Too Young,” Alfalfa must recite the famous poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade. In this poem, Lord Tennyson memorializes the disastrous and suicidal charge of a British light cavalry brigade during the Crimean War. In…
