Author: Adventures

 Trust is a powerful thing. With it, we’ll do anything for a person. Without it, a simple question will be looked upon with doubt. This is especially true in leadership.   Recently, a study was released stating that trust in business leaders is as low as 18 percent and that governments have a dismal 13 percent trust rating. (via cnbc)   You can make all sorts of assumptions about why businesses and governments are failing, but it would be quite unwise to think trust doesn’t have a major impact in that. Trust breeds trust, and when that mutual trusts sprouts...

In 2010 the Harvard Business Review did a study on Best Buy and their employee engagement rates.  Best Buy had landed on something truly unique setting them apart from many other companies and upping their staff productivity by 35 percent. They found that when they were able to increase employee engagement it increased productivity and revenue within the company. Employee engagement characterized as emotional attachment you feel to your work that influences your desire to further the organization’s interests. “An engaged employee gives you their discretionary...

At the most demanding period of my college career, second semester of my junior year, I decided to take God up on a challenge.  I would give him one whole hour of my day.  Every day.  It may not seem like a big deal, but to me it was huge.  I would easily spend fifty hours a week just on homework outside of class, in addition to my part time job.   My social times were limited to Saturday 9-12pm and Sunday morning church.  An hour a day was a sacrifice.    I convinced myself that nothing would get in the way.  Not an assignment, not a test, not a...