Legacy – understanding the wisdom
Legacy – understanding the wisdom. Your thoughts? Legacy means different things to different people. What do you envision your own personal legacy will look like? From a business perspective, you don’t have to be rich, just firmly committed to something larger than yourself. Those who have the tenacity to follow through on goals and plans, year after year, command a different determination and unstoppable, courageous attitude. Purpose-driven, legacy builders. Legacy builders are always searching for and discovering new concepts and ideas, and putting them into action. Generally, that action requires followers, employees, family, and friends. It’s not the size or the scope of your business that matters; it’s more about…
A Gentleman’s Agreement – What ever happened to the term
A Gentleman's Agreement - What ever happened to the term
Is change a distraction to cover up disruption
Is change a distraction to cover up disruption? You can have all the systems in place that you want, but if you don’t know who to call when trouble happens, what good will your systems be? Fifteen years later and businesses still call on their past employees for help. There are some skills that cannot be easily shared, or packaged in a system. Licenses and professional trades that only a few aspire to ever learn. Hands-on crafts and design work are true pieces of wonder. You can’t systemize dreams, and you can’t bottle creativity. What makes people think they can systemize another man’s or woman’s thoughts? Processes can be systemized,…
Out-of-Office
Out-of-Office I was trying to write an out-of-office (OOO) message the other day, and I wasn’t feeling any love flowing from the process. Rummaging through a number of my co-worker’s past OOO messages, it was apparent none of them were feeling the love when they wrote theirs either. I decided to search out some smarty pants OOOs on the net. But… most of the ones I found of value, would probably have gotten me into serious trouble if I used them. Dang it! I didn’t want to leave the standard “‘ ….. — ……” I also knew I couldn’t post any pictures of my fluffy little pink body lying on…
Humility During Adversity
Humility During Adversity Trying to remain humble and calm during times of adversity is a tough call. Humility During Adversity is a tough call. Especially when everyone around you is fighting mad, or suffering from some disappointment somewhere in their career or personal life. A working office environment has emotion and life to it. You are not immune to what goes on there. You also are not immune to the politics inside and outside of your office. It would be nice if we could just shut out the political rhetoric – but often it seeps in when we least want it there. Add a political campaign cycle to an already…
