Relationship management is always a relevant topic, always evolving, and always an area of growth because of its impact. Human relations and communication competency are two primary areas for coaching and leadership development. And the hardest part, the real challenge, is to put other people first. In doing so, you show in your actions loyalty, [...]

If I was to shoot an arrow at the side of a barn, and every time an arrow lands paint a bull’s-eye, “scoring a bull’s-eye” would lose any real meaning. What is required for satisfaction is to be able to measure practice that is defined as successful. What is also required is that [...]

“If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call into question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which [...]

We moved home because we missed the terrain and feel of corn fields that surrounded white farm houses and red barns. We missed apple orchards, pumkin patches, four seasons, and the memory of getting bored with our family. Our spirits were dry and what we thought was success, felt like nefarious burning sun. [...]

Leaders live in the gap created by the current reality as perceived, and the preferred future as conceived. These tensions that are self created or given to us by others, ask us questions of how we will be responsible to the entire equation that the gap creates. We are commanded - whether internally [...]

“As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” It is never easy to think differently in order to perceive and then act differently. My thought constellation gets stuck in just that, my thoughts. Thoughts are past tense, thinking is generative. “Felt” is past tense, “feeling” is present tense and [...]