Author: Adventures

7:30- Wake up, get ready for work.   9:15- Arrive at work, answer emails and catch up with co-workers.   10- Begin to write or edit a video.   10:30- Stop answering Skype messages long enough to begin actually writing/editing   11- Meeting   11:45- Finish meeting, answer emails that arrived since the last time I checked   12:30- Lunch   1:30- Tired from lunch, get back to work   1:45- Begin to write/edit again   2:05- Get interrupted by a Skype message that pops into my window- respond   3- Meeting   4- Realize how much work I still...

I love sports. Sports also provide awesome insight into leadership. To start, who wants to hire a head football coach for a prestigous college football team, whose only credentials are having coached his daughter's middle school volleyball team? This "coach" has not proven anything, besides the fact that he must have a lot of patience. He may be an awesome leader.He may have countless hours of armchair quarterbacking. He may even have won a trophy in college during the summer flag football tournament, but that is not what and Athletic Director is looking for. He doesn't...

What does Thanksgiving mean to you?  Is it the colossal amounts of turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie?  Charlie Brown? The Lions playing football, or is it the overarching theme of saying thanks and giving appreciation for the things and people in your life that deserve it.    For me one of the most meaningful parts of the holiday is the thanksgiving, the intentional time that we take to think about and give gratitude to the things and people that we often miss or overlook life.  I was recently pondering how Thanksgiving might effect and relate to...

If you had the chance to meet anyone famous, who would you choose?   Would you pick a professional athlete, a politician, a celebrity, or a CEO?   Why would you choose this specific man or woman?   What would you ask them?   This last week in ELP, we were asked to compile a list of 10 leaders we’d like to interview and what we would ask them if the opportunity ever arose.   Who do we choose? Donald Trump or Donald Miller? Bono or Jeff Bezos?   As we sat deliberating which names made the cut and which didn’t, I realized that it doesn’t truly...

Why would someone want you to be their leader?   Tim asked us this question in our meeting this last week.  I said, “Because I care about the individual while I lead them to the big picture.”  Others in the room stated similar reasons and when we were done Tim shared that the Harvard Business Review recently discovered that while all leaders need strategic direction and vision, there are four additional qualities that make for extraordinary leaders.   At the top of this list was vulnerability. What they found was when a leader shares weakness it invites...