Tag: Shared Leadership
I have a friend who is a remarkable hypnotherapist in Portland, Maine. Her name is Maggie Clement, and I have been a grateful client of hers for many years, dating back to when I first acquired my voice condition, spasmodic dysphonia. At the peak of my speaking difficulties, years ago, Maggie helped me to realize…
READ ARTICLEI have a Peloton bike in my basement. To date, I have taken 884 rides. My favorite instructor is Emma Lovewell, and my goal, each ride, is to finish in the top 20 percent. During a ride Emma is a bundle of energy with her smiles, her dance moves, and her wisdom. She’s an optimist,…
READ ARTICLEWe 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 #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 ARTICLEHaving competed in sports and business my whole life, I understand the traditional view of winning. Winning is about supremacy and thus requires defeat. For every winner there must be an equal and corresponding loser. The Roman Colosseum is an early manifestation of the consequences of losing. Here men fought to the death. For you…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #25 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 been at Pine Ridge many times in late October. Halloween gatherings are organized in most communities across the…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #23 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 empires grew by amassing power into the center. “All roads lead to Rome,” as the ancient saying goes….
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #22 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 world did not become round only at the point when it was acceptable to say it was round.” —Jan…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #21 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 no one single nation or tribe that has cornered the market on great people. Great people are abundant…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #20 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 my early days at Hancock Lumber we had sweatshirts with our logo on them that read “Our People Make…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #19 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 once attended a powwow in honor of Tamokoce Te’Hila at the Prairie Wind Casino. Billy Mills, as he is…
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…
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