I’ve been a baseball fan for as long as I can remember. I played little league for a few years and thought I had real potential. I could do everything except run, hit, and catch! Well, I guess that doesn’t leave all that much does it…
My great-uncle taught me a love for the...
In the last post, I made a reference to learning that the harder something is to prove the harder it will be to disprove. I also shared something a mentor taught me about there being very little value in being second best. To that point, I believe it was the late Dale Earnhart that referred to...
I can vividly remember back a dozen or so years ago to a time where an absentee plant manager would send a late night email to one of his minions on the local management team demanding a to-the-minute update on the various metrics we were all required to track on a monthly basis. He always...
Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on August 14, 2020.
Have you heard stories of people dying soon after they retire? In many cases, that seems to serve as motivation for considering early retirement and enjoying the time we have left. But according to a study I read recently on...
Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on August 11, 2020.
In the LinkedIn article I published yesterday, I referenced the origins of a quote I had already attributed to Vince Lombardi. We’ve likely all heard some type of reference to the idea of “it’s not whether we...
Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on August 13, 2020.
Following the theme we’ve followed over the last few days, I’m going to challenge you with a question right out of the gate: WHAT do you think or feel when someone in a similar role or field as you’re in...
Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on August 12, 2020.
Before we get started, here’s a quick heads up that we now have all the up to date details on the 2020 LIVE2LEAD:Harrisonburg events posted at www.L2L-Harrisonburg.com and we’ll be adding new details as we have them....
Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on January 16, 2017.
Smokin’ Joe Frazier once said, “Champions aren’t made in the ring, they’re merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.”...
Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on January 17, 2017.
On the way to the office this morning, John Maxwell taught me something that I’m still trying to completely process. (I’ll bet you didn’t realize that John and I carpool almost every morning and every evening!)...
Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on July 2, 2020.
In the last few blogs, we looked at how much more the people on our teams will follow what we do than what we say and then we looked at how much responsibility stinks at times when we realize someone is ALWAYS watching… And...
Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on July 1, 2020.
Do you remember a time in your career, or even in your personal life, when so many people weren’t depending on you to make the right decisions? And maybe there wasn’t even anyone watching if you did something stupid, or...
Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on June 30, 2020.
Ok… Think back to when you were a kid. What did you see the people you admired most doing that you weren’t allowed to do? Maybe you were too young, maybe “it was bad for you”, or maybe it was just something...
