Recently I had the sad and beautiful privilege of attending a funeral for a little baby boy that lived for eight days.
I cannot even begin to fathom the depth of pain and sorrow that would be associated with losing a child.
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On a recent star tour in Bryce Canyon, I had the opportunity to look through several high-powered telescopes.
Some of these telescopes were almost as big as I am, and all required a step ladder to get to the eye piece and see the object it was directed at in space.
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Amazon, Netflix, Disney+, Google, and many others make their money by providing content that is personalized on their platform.
When you log into Amazon.com the entire canvas is tailored to your shopping and search history. It is all very personalized to every individual.
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For years, my wife and I had on our list of things to do a star gazing tour at Bryce Canyon National Park. It is advertised as one of the darkest places on the planet.
This summer we were finally able to do it and I had an insight related to a post I wrote a while back on light pollution.
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My friend shared with me a habit that I believe has been the primary contributor to her success in business, today she is responsible for large business at Microsoft.
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Recently I attended a Summit where all the individuals in our organization got together (many of us in-person) to connect and learn.
An observation I had while talking to several different colleagues is that there is an almost natural or default behavior to return to the way things used to be before COVID. What was “muscle memory” is coming back to all of us as we come back to the office. The challenge that this presents is that our default behavior completely disregards everything we have learned from our COVID experience.
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There are few companies on earth that can say the following and have it actually be real. Microsoft is one of these companies.
(more…)We are not charter constrained, we are leadership constrained.
You finished the third quarter goals and started working on your org strategy with your leadership team. This strategy will help you make progress and achieve your goals for the next fiscal year.
Last year you and the team collectively spent 20+ hours creating the strategy and getting each and every word of your mission statement and vision just right. The year did not go as planned. Not all the team members were aligned, the strategy was clear to some and not clear to others and worst of all, your team took on more projects than it could let go. This year things will be different.
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This week I had a conversation with a colleague that helped me uncover a blind spot I had. I have been studying and thinking about what I have been calling “purpose driven leadership”.
The concept is this. When you do the hard internal and personal work of why you are here on the planet you have discovered your purpose. This is much larger than just one area of your life. It encompasses all that you must contribute to the world.
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Sometimes when having a conversation with a leader you get a nugget of wisdom that changes the way you think. Charlotte Yarkoni did this for me recently.
I asked Charlotte a question that went like this; the last few years have been full of uncertainty, what have you done to create clarity for your team and organization?
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I teach and invite people to act. Proud husband, father and amateur pizzaiolo