Communication

You may have heard or read about the opposite of love is fear (not hate). We are in especially challenging times in the world where we spend more time looking for separation than connection, and senseless death is no longer limited to “other places” in the world. The more you watch/listen/read the news, the more [...]

You've heard it many times. I'm guessing you've said it many times too. "Thanks for your help with this." Response, "no problem."  Sound familiar? What made it a problem that had to be denied? I experience this kind of interaction over and over. As I thank the flight attendant for my glass of water, or [...]

Leadership is often defined as a title.  "The Leadership has decided....” The word gets thrown around as a noun, a verb, and an adjective.  More books have been written about leadership than any other subject, yet we find ourselves in a shortfall of leadership skills in our workforce.  How does this happen? Leadership is a [...]

April is the biggest TEAM month in our sports culture.  March Madness culminates in the Final Four, for both men and women in all divisions of the college basketball world. Likely you participated or know about one bracket competition or another, and all in the name of good fun, and camaraderie. What happens in these [...]

If you hadn’t heard, there is a presidential election this year.  My home state of Iowa kicked off the primary (caucus) season on February 1st.   The crescendo of political ads and multitude of candidate visits since the process began is finally silenced for now, and my family and friends who live there are glad for [...]

The "blue screen of death", the "spinning wheel of death" - these are words that we use when describing a process which we fear will lead us to lose something. How often do we reference the "method to our madness"? And those are only a few references we have in our day to day language [...]