Tag: Kevin Hancock
Below is Whisper #27 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 highest aspiration for mankind should be freedom for all. But freedom is elusive, tricky to define, and surprisingly hard…
READ ARTICLEDo you want to revolutionize your family business and create a lasting legacy of generational wealth? Kevin Hancock speaks Shanice Miller to just that on the Do Less Show On today’s show, Kevin Hancock begins by acknowledging a common problem faced by many business owners: their children often show little interest in taking over the…
READ ARTICLEOn this podcast, Kevin Hancock speaks with JM Ryerson on his ‘Let’s Go Win’ podcast. Let’s Go Win is a peak performance interview show on leadership, mindset, and business development. JM features leaders and entrepreneurs with inspirational stories on personal development, achievements and success. On this episode, Kevin and JM discuss the power and potential…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #4 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. These words by philosopher Joseph Campbell reveal his understanding of the world’s mythologies and sacred stories as manifestations of the…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #3 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 was the day before Halloween, and I found myself standing alone at the Wounded Knee Massacre site on the…
READ ARTICLEOn this podcast, Kevin Hancock speaks with Real Clear Values host Tom English about sustainable success. As Chairman of a 7th generation family business, Hancock Lumber’s sustainability doesn’t only depend on the sustainability of their supplies (i.e. trees), though that is critical, it also rests on people-oriented sustainability. In 2010, Kevin lost his voice and…
READ ARTICLEIn this article, Stacie Gorkow, owner of the blog Sincerely Stacie, highlights 48 Whispers is on her “Books That Came My Way in August 2021” post. She gives a small preview of the book and what it’s about in her post. She writes reviews on recently read books and makes recommendations. Click here to see…
READ ARTICLEIn this article, Kevin Hancock is interviewed about his progressive view on shared leadership. He shares how the lumber industry is often misunderstood and seen as outdated, but he says this is inaccurate. Everything from the technology inside the sawmills to the culture fostered at the company is modern and innovative. Kevin explains more about…
READ ARTICLEIn this article, Kevin Hancock’s newest book, 48 Whispers, is highlighted as a book in the “To Be Read” stack. In this small overview of the book, it highlights Kevin’s personal journey of healing and how he found the Lakota tribe at Pine Ridge. It also brings his shared leadership philosophy forward and the influence…
READ ARTICLE“I am a wild, wandering nomad, I belong everywhere and nowhere all at the same time, and in that gap between worlds, I am free.” —Ritta Klint I’m fascinated by the nomadic past of the Sioux tribes on the northern plains. Before the reservation era, the Sioux moved freely across a vast territory stretching from…
READ ARTICLEThe Softwood Forest Products Buyer is reaching out to company leaders across the industry to solicit their input on key issues that impact overall business success. In this publication, Kevin Hancock shares his insights. “Some organizations collect leadership power into the bureaucratic center, where a few people can make the majority of the decisions for…
READ ARTICLE“Strange what being slowed down could do to a person.” —Nicholas Sparks Even though the gymnasium was filled with whistles, shouting, and squeaking sneakers, I can still hear the coach’s wisdom nearly forty years later. I was at SWISH basketball camp at the University of Southern Maine, a junior in high school preparing for…
READ ARTICLE“It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those shadows men get lost.” —Black Elk I have dedicated the essays that I write this year to Black Elk, but I have not yet told you why. The answer is that I see deep truth…
READ ARTICLE“For it is dangerous to attach one’s self to the crowd in front, and so long as each one of us is more willing to trust another than to judge for himself, we never show any judgement in the matter of living, but always a blind trust, and a mistake that has been passed on…
READ ARTICLE2021 IDEA-SHARING ADVENTURE SERIES BY KEVIN HANCOCK “The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” —John Muir Last week I wrote about the importance of CEOs broadening their roles and seeing the highest calling of free enterprise as the advancement of humanity. This week I…
READ ARTICLE2021 IDEA-SHARING ADVENTURE SERIES BY KEVIN HANCOCK “You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. The sky is round, and I have heard that the Earth is round like a ball, and…
READ ARTICLE2021 IDEA-SHARING ADVENTURE SERIES BY KEVIN HANCOCK “Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportionate to each other.” —Leon Trotsky What are the origins of bureaucracy? How did “power” historically become centralized in command-and-control hierarchies? How did certain groups come to exert a defining influence over others? The answer, at its most fundamental level, is through…
READ ARTICLEHello! In the spring of this year I am publishing my next book! 48 WHISPERS from Pine Ridge and the Northern Plains is a hybrid of sorts. First, it’s a photography book featuring full-page photos that I have taken at Pine Ridge, the Black Hills, and across the plains. Second, it’s a personal and organizational…
READ ARTICLEHello 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…
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