Leadership Lessons Learned

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Jan 8

You better, you better, you bet

Circa 1981, The Who released “You Better You Bet”. Debates ensued about whether it described the life of a rock n roller, a dysfunctional relationship, being grounded by realizations or limitations that existed, or was a love song from Townsend to his girlfriend at the time. The song came about 16 years following what many…
Aug 15

Winning at losing…

Whether you stay in the saddle for the full 8 seconds or get tossed in about 3 seconds like yours truly did, the bull (real or mechanical) is eventually going to win. To stay on longer in the future, you need to pay attention to what allowed you to stay on for the time you…
Jul 30

Blend, But Don’t Blender

My friend and the incredible scholar David Rosowsky published a piece in Forbes last week about what he termed the excessive homogenization of US higher education. As always after reading anything from David, it led to my deliberating on parallels elsewhere and everywhere. My first association when organizing my thinking, without even contemplating writing yet,…
Jun 23

Finding, Setting, Keeping Your Bearings

A few weeks ago, a “friend” (pictured) stopped by. He slowly ambled by within ten feet of the house looking around and with no rush to be anywhere or no plan on where he was going next the best I could tell. As I snapped a few photos of him in the quiet that I…