by Chris Marlink | Feb 4, 2020 | Leading Yourself, Living Systems
While I was talking with my leadership coach, Dave Ozios, about living systems, I happened to see that directly behind him stood a large upright cubby cabinet. Inside some of the cubbies were personal effects, photographs of previous LEAD 24/7 cohorts, hand tools, and...
by Meredith Nieuwsma | Jan 23, 2020 | Leading Yourself
Do you remember the analogy of the rider and the elephant in the book Switch? Each of us has a rider—our rational, logical self—and each of us has an elephant—our emotional, reactionary self. When things are going just fine in our lives, our rider is usually in...
by Jeffrey Boersma | Jan 16, 2020 | Leading Change
My son Marc was expelled from school a number of years ago because of a senior prank that went way too far. He and his friends got up in the middle of the night, broke into their school, and vandalized it. They stole the keys to school vehicles and drove them. You...
by Rodger Price | Jan 14, 2020 | Casting Vision
Looking ahead for this year of 2020 makes it almost impossible for me to not think about vision. The word-play on the numbers 20-20 is so obvious, I think most people are staying away from it so as to not make people roll their eyes. It just so happens that for the...
by Rodger Price | Jan 6, 2020 | Alumni Learning Group
It’s that time again—the start of a new year, right on the heels of a great passing year. This year, however, it’s the transition between two decades. On my holiday break I couldn’t help but think back over the past year and also over the past decade to reflect on how...
by Jeffrey Boersma | Dec 10, 2019 | Listening
Dr. Frasier Crane was the main character on the show Frasier. He played a psychiatrist who had his own radio show in the Pacific Northwest in Seattle, Washington. His radio show had a call-in format. People called in with their problems, and he dispensed advice. The...
by Meredith Nieuwsma | Dec 9, 2019 | Leading Yourself
How busy are you right now? According to the radio, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. I’m not so sure that I agree. December, for me, is one to-do list after another, both personally and professionally. I can’t wait for the fresh start of the...
by Chris Marlink | Dec 2, 2019 | Feedback
We all like an ‘at-a-boy or ‘at-a-girl. I can distinctly remember a handful of times when our organization’s president called me out by name in front of my peers for an above-and-beyond type effort. That felt great. But I can also remember taking a tough phone call...
by Jeffrey Boersma | Nov 22, 2019 | DoKnowBe Tree
Happy Thanksgiving fellow leaders! This week’s post is going to take a new angle on the sweet-spot exercise. During our year of LEAD, we looked at the diagram below several times asking the same extremely important question: How close are you right now to being in...
by Rodger Price | Nov 13, 2019 | Leaning into Healthy Conflict
After writing back-to-back posts on what I believe is our most important topic for West Michigan leaders (Leaning Into Healthy Conflict), I shared a fictional story about the use of this conflict model last week . This week I’m going to share one more short story...
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