Tuesday Reading

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had such a strong and lasting influence on our society.  He molded ideas until the dream could take shape into reality.

Look for Joy and You’ll Find It.  We must navigate a challenging surge in the virus, threatening to invade our lives for the third year in a row.

Yes experience matters, but to me, there are other items that are equally important to hiring an invaluable asset to the team.

It is a great time of year for believing. Believing is inspiring, empowering, magical. This was embodied by our friend and teammate, Rick Fredericks.

The shared trauma of the pandemic gives us an unusual opportunity to have a conversation on a topic about which we are usually silent.

And that was it, my aah hah moment, when I thought, oh wow, I can do this, my ideas have value. It was one of the most validating moments of my life.

How to have a growth mindset: believe your brain can change, hear your fixed mindset, recognize you have a choice, think in a growth mindset, persist.

Investing the time to deeply and authentically know ourselves in not a trivial task. It takes strong character to be brutally honest with ourselves.

I had projects to work on, but would escape to the more comfortable. I overcame my lizard brain impulse to run and learned how to accomplish more.

At some point in your career you may have a difficult manager.  If this happens, what do you do besides ignore what’s happening or run for the door?