Tag: Shared Leadership
As discussed in my last post, Black Elk, or Hehaka Sapa, is the most famous Oglala holy man of the nineteenth century. He was born free in December of 1863, and was with Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The following is a set of excerpts from the book…
READ ARTICLEBlack Elk, or Hehaka Sapa, is the most famous Oglala holy man of the nineteenth century. He was born free in December of 1863, before the breaking of treaties. He was with Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull the day Custer and the 7th Cavalry attacked on the Little Bighorn River. Years later, he rescued survivors…
READ ARTICLEThe following is an excerpt from my book The Seventh Power: One CEO’s Journey into the Business of Shared Leadership: Why not make the authentic self-expression of the human spirit the focus of business? People excel when they come into their own true voice and feel free to be exactly who they are. By energizing…
READ ARTICLEIn early May, Kevin travelled to Chicago to speak at a Senior Marketing & Business Development Executives Peer Group on the process for improving employee engagement through shared leadership. This marks Kevin’s second speaking engagement with the Chief Executive Network. Watch the full keynote and view photos from the event below!
READ ARTICLEMy 5th podcast with my dear friend Connie Whitman aired recently and I would like to share it with you! The focus is bringing more love into the place of work. In this animated chat we explore why more love is needed in the place of work, what love looks like at work, and how love…
READ ARTICLEHancock Lumber has been harvesting and milling white pine logs into lumber since 1848. Across all of those years we have never processed the same log twice. Every pine tree is similar, yet none are identical. Each tree is a never-to-be-repeated, unique representative of its species. And so it is with humans. Across the totality…
READ ARTICLEIn April I had a lovely opportunity to visit with my friend Mark Jones, CEO of Saco & Biddeford Savings Institution. This was a recorded conversation later shared with all their great employees at a company gathering. The subject of the conversation was making work meaningful for those who do it. We explored the idea…
READ ARTICLEI was sitting in an employee huddle at our Saco store when I heard the statement The work culture here is ours to create. A relatively new member of the store team had said this, and everyone was now following up in agreement. Weeks later I was in a similar huddle at our Yarmouth store…
READ ARTICLEIn 1972 six young guys from Chicago formed the American rock band Styx. Five years later they released their hugely successful album, The Grand Illusion. This first of four straight multi-platinum albums features the eponymous song, and its lyrics are legendary. Every time I listen to this epic rock ballad, two things happen: First, I…
READ ARTICLEOur thoughts drive behavior, and behavior drives performance. What we see determines what we do, and what we do determines what we get. Therefore, if we want something different in our lives, it must begin with new thoughts. Our thoughts matter. The noise of the modern world can feel overwhelming. Phones, laptops, tablets, television, news,…
READ ARTICLEThe following is an excerpt from my first book, Not for Sale: Finding Center in the Land of Crazy Horse: In 2010 I lost the consistent and comfortable use of my speaking voice. This hidden blessing forced me to reassess my management approach. I am not sure I would have done so otherwise. I might…
READ ARTICLE“My every thought was ambition—to be great.” —George Armstrong Custer What a sight it would have been to see the Indian encampment on the morning of June 25, 1876. It was a hot, hot day. Children were playing in the cool waters known to the Indians as the Greasy Grass River. A herd of ponies…
READ ARTICLEThe shelves at my home office hold some personally meaningful trophies and awards that have come my way through the years, yet none of them matter much to my two-year-old granddaughter. Sumner loves my office. As soon as her feet hit the floor, she heads for the black couch across from my desk where her…
READ ARTICLEMy time on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota has opened my eyes to the need for a new leadership model that honors everyone. Overreaching has consequences, and winning isn’t winning unless everyone’s winning. Take, for example, these Indigenous perspectives on America’s “winning of the West” during the last decades of the nineteenth…
READ ARTICLE“Freedom is not free.” —Colonel Walter Hitchcock On June 14, 2024, Vice Admiral Joseph Scott Mobley, US Navy, retired, passed away. Were it not for my amazing stepfather, Admiral Greg Johnson (USN, Ret.), I never would have known Mobley’s name. Just a few days after the vice admiral’s death, Greg sent me a summary of…
READ ARTICLEThe Business of Shared Leadership and Kevin Hancock are proud to announce that Kevin has officially joined the Board of Directors, along with three other Maine based leaders, at The Mitchell Institute. Kevin had this to say about his recent election to the board: I’m happy to have joined the BOD of the Mitchell Institute. The…
READ ARTICLE“It is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.” —Jim Collins I had a great day last week and spent a few minutes reflecting on why. The answer surprised me in its simplicity: I spent the entire…
READ ARTICLE“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.” —Carl Jung My oldest granddaughter is two years old, and she’s so much fun! She’s constantly on the go, in exploration mode, walking fast and investigating her world. In the process, she’s learning what she can do on her own, without help or support. This occasionally leads…
READ ARTICLE“You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind’s desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener—he goes on holding shady…
READ ARTICLE“To be accountable is to care for the well-being of the whole and act as if this well-being is in our hands and hearts to create.” —Peter Block There is nothing that happens at Hancock Lumber in the way of a problem that I can’t trace back to myself as the senior leader of the…
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