05 June 2010 ~ 3 Comments

Fired Up or Burned Out (Part 3)

I’m reading “Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity, and Productivity” and just sharing my reflections here. Part 1 is here Part 2 is here.
Chapter 2: The Science of Connection
In recent years, neuroscientists have discovered that positive human contact has a physiological effect on people… (pg. 9)
Other research establishes that [...]

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17 May 2010 ~ 4 Comments

Fired Up or Burned Out (Part 2)

This is a picture of the Governor of California. He’s got very large muscles. That has nothing to do with this post.
I’m reading “Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity, and Productivity” and just sharing my reflections here. I love the book. I love reading about stuff like this. And I [...]

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10 May 2010 ~ 3 Comments

Fired Up or Burned Out (Part 1)

I’m making my way through “Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity, and Productivity.” So far, I’ve found it to be an incredibly powerful book with some real applicable leadership principles. After I got about half way through it, I recommended that our executive staff at Rancho Community go through [...]

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09 December 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Levers & Pulleys

Leverage. It’s the oldest trick in the book. One of the oldest tools used to accomplish more. My son just studied ’simple machines’ and guess what tool #1 was? You guessed it. The lever. A lever is a tool that’s all. But it is powerful. With a lever I can lift or move something 10 [...]

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08 November 2008 ~ 4 Comments

Leadership Lessons from the A-Team

The A-Team was one of my favorite shows ever when I was a kid. Here’s how it worked…

The team leader was Col. John “Hannibal” Smith, whose plans tended to be unorthodox but were effective.
Lt. Templeton “Faceman” Peck was a smooth-talking con-man who served as the team’s appropriator of vehicles and other useful items.
The team’s pilot [...]

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