authentic reflections of a life desired to live well
Years ago I got lucky. I was starting an executive leadership role and was the youngest person by 20 years. I felt like I didn’t belong and maybe the people that hired me made a mistake. My first board meeting came quickly and I was to present. I didn’t even know how to create a board report. My learning curve was steep. Then I learned that the chairman of my committee and board...
“Dad, are we rich?” That’s a question my then second-grader asked me after school one day. Turns out one of her classmates was celebrating her birthday by having a limo pick up a small group of girls from school to party. Some of her classmates were given cell phones that year. She had been to other friends homes that were bigger, nicer, shinier than ours. A legitimate...
Have you ever been confronted by something you wrote, texted or tweeted? If you haven’t you’re probably in the minority. I’m sure you realize that everything you text, email, snap and tweet become part of your digital footprint and many times can’t ever truly be permanently erased. Sure, you can delete the tweet, but someone could have taken a screenshot and re-posted it...
A few years ago I was sitting in my office shaking. In tears. With my door closed. I had just fired someone for the first time. He was a good man. Nice guy. But the direction of where organization needed to go necessitated some change. Hard decisions needed to be made. And I had no idea how to navigate waters like this. I didn’t sleep two...
authentic reflections of a life desired to live well
