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Hello and Happy New Year! Wishing you and your family a safe and fun holiday! Looking forward to 2021! Across 2020 I participated in nearly 100 “events” (podcasts, articles, talks, interviews) hoping to advance the concepts of EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT – SHARED LEADERSHIP – DISPERSED POWER – and RESPECT FOR ALL VOICES. My goal is to…
READ ARTICLEElection day is finally here and with it I have one wish and one promise… MY WISH… and hope… is that all 565 of us who work at Hancock Lumber VOTE (or have voted)! That’s your voice / our voice in action! MY PROMISE… While every election is important, America will neither be SAVED nor…
READ ARTICLESo the article copied below fascinates me. I’ve been on this theme for a while but have not really known how to approach it. I’m trying to reconcile the following dichotomy – there are lots of American based multi-national corporations that want to lead for social justice in THIS country (which is great) BUT won’t…
READ ARTICLEHello! I have some exciting news! My next book, The Seventh Power – One CEO’S Journey into the Business of Shared Leadership, releases on February 25, 2020. My publisher, Post Hill Press recently launched the ‘coming soon’ sale site on Amazon. Check out the link and help me share it with others! It takes a community of…
READ ARTICLEThe Wall Street Journal recently published this article titled, Fast-Tracked Aircraft Certification, Pushed by Boeing, Comes Under the Spotlight My next book is about, in part, OVERREACHING, and how leaders often go too far and take too much… One of the common paths of overreaching, I have concluded, is GOING TOO FAST…and cutting corners in…
READ ARTICLEClick on the link below! On March 28th in Washington D.C., my dear friend and NOT FOR SALE book star, Pinky Clifford, is receiving a distinguished award from the National Low Income Housing Coalition for her decades of work to bring home ownership opportunities to the people of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. I am…
READ ARTICLEToday is a day to celebrate all the good we have done as parents…and to forgive any transgressions…and to contemplate fresh starts when necessary. One great thing about life is no matter who you are or where you are there are always past events to be thankful for AND future chances to create something fresh…
READ ARTICLEThe University of Maine at Augusta and the Office of the Dean of Students have invited Kevin Hancock to speak about his experiences on the Pine Ridge Reservation as part of their recognition of Native American Heritage Month at the Augusta campus. This event is open to the public, and will be held from 12pm…
READ ARTICLEHello! The third printed edition of NOT FOR SALE – Finding Center in the Land of Crazy Horse arrived from the publishing company today! The book first launched in the fall of 2015 and we now have 6,000 copies sold or in distribution. To celebrate, now through September 30th, we are having a big sale! For every…
READ ARTICLEHello! I did a live Facebook podcast with the Maine Restaurant and Innkeepers Associations today! On October 24th I am speaking at their 1st annual Maine Hospitality Summit (www.mainehospitalitysummit.com). Here is a link to the podcast…: https://www.facebook.com/MaineInnkeepers/videos/10154577491767282/ At their conference we are going to be talking about leadership strategies for pushing power out from the corporate…
READ ARTICLEI was blessed to be the key note speaker this weekend at the annual National Spasmodic Dysphonia Conference held, ironically this year, in the Music City of Nashville, TN. People with broken voices from all over the world came to the city of beautiful voices to learn, connect and share their stories. It was such…
READ ARTICLE[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wYXw4K0A3g] Hello! This is a great short (4:00 minute) video reminder about how we are all more alike than we are different. The ideas that we think divide us are not as big as they appear… Kevin Hancock President / Hancock Lumber [email protected] Books available at www.kevindhancock.com
READ ARTICLEThis short article is by a friend of mine…Larry Miller…a lean management consultant. The article is titled The Ten Virtues of Leadership for a Collaborative World. This is a quick but brilliant read and just had to share this with you. I don’t use the word ‘brilliant’ very often…but this article is briliant! I shared…
READ ARTICLEI had the honor of being the dinner speaker tonight at Aetna’s world-wide finance team leadership conference in Hartford, CT. They had 400 of their finance leaders there from around the globe. Aetna bought a copy of the book NOT FOR SALE for each attendee. It was really fun to share the story of Pine Ridge and…
READ ARTICLEJust sharing this 3 minute video…no one in the video over 10 years old…could solve all the world’s problems…
READ ARTICLEHello! This video humanizes the Syrian refugee crisis. Whenever you humanize a situation the truth surfaces. President Trump’s current position of distancing America from refugee challenges is the opposite of what should be done and who we are as a country. “Refugee” – a person who has been FORCED to leave their country in…
READ ARTICLEHello! I had this essay picked up as the OP-ED in the Maine Sunday Telegram Today. Americans should set example for new leader The world around us can be very mesmerizing and distracting but at the end of the day our path always comes back to what we each choose to do on a local…
READ ARTICLEI have been saving this video for Christmas. When you have 15 minutes you might enjoy this 60 Minutes segment on how love and ideas ended the 50 year old gorilla war in Columbia. It’s the best example I have seen of the new Aquarian paradigm of human engagement. The New Columbia http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-colombia-after-civil-war-lara-logan/ More than…
READ ARTICLEI saw this quote today. It crystalized a thought I have had for some time for the people of Pine Ridge and the other reservation communities of the northern plains. This quote also speaks to the one concern I have had surrounding the protests at Standing Rock. More broadly, I think this quote is applicable…
READ ARTICLEI participated in a small leadership workshop recently where there goal was simple…acquiring a piece of new learning…putting an idea in your head that had not been there before. The program was a reminder that growth is an intentional act…you have to be looking for new ideas, wanting to think differently. It all reminded me…
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