Start With Why
There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it. Simon Sinek I just re-read Simon Sinek’s book, Start With Why, originally published in [...]
Passing
The thread glinted,caught in the lightand then goneThe strand, silky and ephemeral.As mysteriousas the cardinal’s call.Framing this moment,there is a tearedging from my eye –holding [...]
Hear the Call, Accept the Mission, Prepare the Way
I heard it long before I saw it. The blades of its propellers pounded the air as it moved slowly across the afternoon sky. Sitting atop Mount Fortuna at the north east edge of San Diego, I [...]
It’s Easy to Surrender Responsibility When We Don’t Have Control
To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility. Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men The Realities of Control Control. Oh, how we want it. We want to know what to do to create [...]
Walking into 2022 Firmly Resolving to be Better
The New Year is here. Moving into January 2022, we acutely feel the many changes of the last 24 months. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed much and tested us: as individuals, as organizations, as [...]