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We had perhaps the best seats at the Royal River Grill House in Yarmouth, Maine: a table for two beside a big window, looking out onto a coastal winter landscape where the river makes its way to the open sea. Reflective and calm, it was a perfect place to think about leadership. Sara Binkhorst sat…
READ ARTICLEI have a dear friend from Pasadena, California, named Tom Shenk. He’s one of the most accomplished executive coaches and business leadership consultants of his generation. And fate brought him into my life. We’ve known each other for just four years, and yet he’s affirmed, refined, and sparked many of my most valued beliefs…
READ ARTICLEIt’s reported that Mark Twain once said, I didn’t have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one. Here’s my attempt at honoring Twain’s satirical wisdom on the value of condensing our messages. The summation of all my most valued personal learning, speaking, and writing to date can be…
READ ARTICLEHancock Lumber and the Business of Shared Leadership are excited to announce Kevin Hancock, Chairman of Hancock Lumber and award-winning author, has been selected as one of the six world-class speakers to present at the upcoming Chief Executive Leadership Conference in Phoenix, AZ. This 2-day conference will allow attendees unparalleled access to the realm of extraordinary growth and strategic foresight…
READ ARTICLEIn 2010 I acquired a rare neurological voice disorder called spasmodic dysphonia. Speaking, something I had always taken for granted and done a lot of, was suddenly a difficult chore. In the years that followed I worked with a voice therapist by the name of Connie Pike who also had SD but overcame it. She…
READ ARTICLEIn 2023 I co-developed an executive coaching program designed to encourage business leaders to use their personal positions of influence to give other people a stronger voice. Modern leadership should be about dispersing power, not collecting it. In the place of work, business leadership should aspire to make work more meaningful and energy-giving for those…
READ ARTICLEHello! This week I simply want to share with you my favorite wisdom drop from Black Elk. Black Elk is the most famous Lakota wichasa wakan (holy man or medicine man) of the twentieth century. He came of age before the reservation era, when the Sioux tribes were strong, prosperous, and free. Black Elk was…
READ ARTICLEIn my last post we discussed how change is created. It’s an inside job. We become what we wish to see. The outer world is a mirror, projecting back what we carry with us on the inside. One of my favorite spiritual writers is Alice O. Howell. I came across her work a decade ago….
READ ARTICLEChange. It’s one of life’s constants, and one of the few guarantees that can be made to all humans. Although our Universe is in constant motion and flux, change management is rarely taught, or even discussed. What’s required for humans to engineer change? How do we become thoughtful agents of positive change? I’ve given these…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #48 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Given all the work that goes into enhancing the human experience, why isn’t humanity advancing faster? Perhaps it’s because there…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #47 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. For centuries scientists, spiritualists, and philosophers have attempted to discover the center of all that is. The sun revolves around…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #46 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. When our company first began learning about lean manufacturing practices, we worked with a talented consultant named Lisa Westberg. As…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #45 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. In 2001 nineteen militants associated with Al-Qaeda hi-jacked four airplanes and brought society to a sudden halt. In 2008 the…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #44 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. There is a metamorphosis playing out across human history that’s hard to see because it’s exceptionally slow. We are transitioning…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #43 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. I have a friend and mentor by the name of Deborah Dooley. She is a clinical psychologist and evolutionary astrologist…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #42 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. No one should be judged by the date, time, and place of their birth. The house we are born into…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #41 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Imagine a scene from a totalitarian regime rally in a great square before an imposing granite capital. The entire gathering…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #40 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. The current state of American political discourse has a negative impact on society’s ability to engage in productive dialogue and…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #39 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. It is delicate to not be Indian and yet write about Indian Country. Only Indians should speak for Indians is…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #38 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. What do you do while you are at Pine Ridge? This is a question I often receive back home in…
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