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I encountered a new situation for me today.

In retrospect, it had been building for some time, but it finally came to a head today. I have been working hard on developing my people to be leaders in their own right. I don't focus on position titles and what they imply. I have been working to develop leaders amongst all my staff. Teaching them to be critical thinkers and to understand our real mission and goals. Giving them the ability to make decisions to provide what we need to provide to satis… Continue

I have blogged on this concept before and have recently been through something that, in my mind, had validated it.
Recently, I suffered a tremendous personal loss. It severely affected my performance at work. My team made a huge effort to step into the gap. In the process, at a peak moment, my lead Supervisor, the man I depended on most to move my vision of our operation forward, suffers a mild heart attack, removing him from the fray. (He is doing very well and the heart attack was very mild, b… Continue

I have never truly suffered a loss until today. Today, I lost my wife. Ellen is the most beautiful woman on the planet. She is smart, strong and physically attractive. She has overcome obstacles that would make the strongest man weep and run. I have loved her for more than 25 years. I have loved her since I first met her in high school. It took me 20 years to gather the courage to tell her I loved her and wanted her, and to my surprise, she accepted me. Today, I learned that I was right to fear… Continue

Ok, the kids are back and we are getting bombarded in a huge way. As we prepared for the beginning of Fresman Orientation, we debated heavily about how we wanted to schedule our returning employees. Did we want to bring them all back at once or do it gradually, as we had in the past because the trend was for the Freshman to not know that we were here and we didn't see a lot of business at first? I decided to bite the bullet and bring them back all at once (with one notable exception.) Despite fe… Continue

Today something awesome happened to me. I met Amanda Hite. I was introduced to this site through a stranger showing up on my twitter account (that was flattering in and of itself, someone was "following" me). I was curious, so I clicked on the little icon and found out about this place/thing called Talent Revolution. I nosed around a little bit and liked what I saw, so I joined up. I didn't realize what a momentous thing that would become. I read som posts and then decided that the corteous thin… Continue