Idea Sharing Archive

Welcome to the Business of Shared Leadership blog! This weekly installment features thought-provoking posts and discussions about inspired leadership topics, authored by Kevin Hancock.

Who’s at War?
“To get people out of their misery, out of this genocide, that is the main reason, the motive and purpose of the military operation that we began in Donbas…
Crazy Horse
“Even the most basic outline of his life shows how great he was, because he remained himself from the moment of his birth to the moment he died; because…
Flipping the Script
“Man should not be in the service of society; society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster…
Set Up to Fail
“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all…
Winning in the Age of Oneness
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” —Henry Ford The traditional definition of winning is Darwinian. Every winner requires an equal and offsetting loser….
People Are Good
“Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned.” —Romans 5:12 I’ve found…
Everyone Is King
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.” —Lucille Ball   In January of 1988 I drove from Bowdoin College to Bridgton Academy to interview for a teaching…
Strength for Your Purpose
Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe. Therefore the Master takes action by…
The Art of the Comeback
“To have a comeback you have to have a setback.” —Mr. T Falmouth High School—January 1983. I jump for a rebound. The next thing I know, I’m lying on…
Look at Me, Daddy!
“No elementary phenomenon is a phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.” —John Wheeler, physicist Alison and I have been married for thirty-two years. During that time, we have…
Five Flashbacks
Flashback #1: Our daughter Abby is five years old, and blindfolded. In the middle of the screened-in porch hangs a piñata. It’s a colorful donkey twirling gently in the…
Oneness Demands Freedom
“If one person in your family commits a crime, the entire family must be purged.” “When you have food in your stomach you can think about the meaning of…
Practice Accentuates Oneness
“If you want to be a champion you’ve got to feel like one, you’ve got to look like one, you’ve got to act like one.” —Red Auerbach John Kohtala…
Oneness Isn’t Sameness
“It takes a lot of different flowers to make a bouquet.” —Ancient Islamic proverb I can still picture the world from my dad’s shoulders. I’m two and a half…
Corporate Oneness
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” —Joseph Campbell   It would be impossible to acknowledge the oneness that defines our universe and then go back…
Two Thousand Years of Propaganda
Go ahead and hate your neighbor Go ahead and cheat a friend Do it in the name of heaven You can justify it in the end. —One Tin Soldier…
You Get What You Feel
“The earth and myself are of one mind.” —Chief Joseph “Hey, Dad, what’s wrong?” one of our daughters asks. Whenever I’m asked that question, I’m a tad disappointed (in…
Planet Earth Needs a Flag
“It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among them men get lost.” —Black Elk In my last post…
What the Sandpiper Knows
“We Indians think of the Earth and the whole universe as a never-ending circle, and in this circle, man is just another animal. The buffalo and the coyote are…
Mitakuye Oyasin
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” —John Muir The most transformative concept I’ve learned from my…