Servant Leadership

This is a reprint of a post I wrote for a company blog in 2016 A few months ago Pat Falotico (@patfalotico) from the Robert Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership (@Greenleafcenter on Twitter) came to my company to give a talk on servant leadership using Robert Greenleaf’s book “The Servant as Leader” as the basis for discussion. […]

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Problem solving (in two ways)

#1 There’s a classic joke about a mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer. An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist are staying for the night in a hotel. A small fire breaks out in each room. The mathematician awakes, sees the fire, makes some careful observations, and on a blackboard installed in the room, does some quick […]

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Telling Your Story, the Stephen King Way

We may use the whiteboard, PowerPoint, our words, or blogs instead of the traditional novel but the concept is the same. We have ideas and stories to share and we want people to listen and get some sort of value from them. In reality, we are all aspiring writers. Part memoir, Stephen King’s On Writing, is also a […]

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Sketchnoting a Camping Vacation

Last week I was on a week-long trip to Sugarcreek, Ohio, home of the nuCamp RV manufacturing facility. The event was called uCamp17, with nuCamp teardrop RVs from around the US and Canada arriving at the Winklepleck Grove Campground in Sugarcreek. Activities hosted by nuCamp were set up every day and in between we spent […]

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