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Quick Thots From Moneyball

October 8, 2011

My wife and I pulled off a miracle and actually went to a movie together this weekend. We hit Moneyball which came on the recommendation of several folks. I really enjoyed the movie. I’m a baseball fan and I lived in the Bay Area during the time frame in which this movie covers so I [...]

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Change is Hard – Especially When You’re 3

November 15, 2010

If you think about it, the transition for a toddler to go from being the “baby” or the one with a lot of the attention from mom to now being the “middle” and losing out on mama time to a new baby is pretty challenging, maybe even traumatic. Colin had a few rough days with [...]

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Bearing an Albatross

September 28, 2010

This entry is part 6 of 10 in the series Leading on the Seas

Here’s another reflection in the “Leading on the Seas” series of posts here. Check the category link to “Leading on the Seas” for a listing of other posts in the series. There’s some great background on the term Albatross from the wikipedia entry “Albatross metaphor”, “the word albatross is sometimes used to mean an encumbrance, [...]

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Hope and Strategies

September 25, 2010

So I was pleasantly surprised today when I found out while on a hayride that my Bruins took it to the University of Texas today for a most surprising football win.In the post game interview with UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel some things jumped out to me and thought I would relay them here. See below [...]

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Lemonade Development

September 14, 2010

This week I was complemented a few times for a particular gifting or strength. While that’s always encouraging, I was thinking how that came to be since I never really considered these particular areas or skills part of my gifting. In fact, I actually had a lot of indifference or apathy about the very things [...]

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Leading Three Sheets to the Wind

September 11, 2010

This entry is part 2 of 10 in the series Leading on the Seas

I thought for the next installment of my unorganized series of posts that I could call “Leading on the Seas” that I would choose one of the more colorful terms in sailing lore – three sheets to the wind. I’ve been physically about 50% or less for the past 10 days so I’m excited to [...]

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Why Org Charts Are Overrated

August 31, 2010

As you read this (if you read this), remember that I said overrated, not irrelevant! Clear roles and responsibilities are important on any team and in any organization. That being said, I still believe organizational charts are overrated.Here’s why.Org charts help solidify chain of command, hierarchy, and structures. Of course you need some of that [...]

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Leading Into the Wind

August 30, 2010

This entry is part 1 of 10 in the series Leading on the Seas

I’m excited that there a couple of guest posts coming. I’ll be posting one in the next couple of days and then the second will be next week some time. But in the meantime…I’ve been researching mariner and sailing lingo for a leadership development project I’ve been working on with my dad. Down the road, [...]

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Retaining Cross-Cultural Talent

July 25, 2010

I referenced some quotes and thoughts from Michael Malone’s The Future Arrived Yesterday in the past week and wanted to highlight one more and make a slightly different application given my own context.In the email I mentioned to my friend Malone wrote, “Smart companies (and countries) are going to have to learn to perpetually scour [...]

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