Tag: The Seventh Power
“You know, in 900 years of time and space, I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important.” —The Doctor, A Christmas Carol For sixteen years I coached the eighth-grade girls’ basketball team at Lake Region Middle School in Naples, Maine. Across all of those seasons, every practice began the same way: As the girls came out…
READ ARTICLE“The problem in this world is to avoid a concentration of power—we must have a dispersion of power.” —Milton Friedman My last post was about the singular mission of public schools in America, which I believe should be instilling a deep sense of self-worth in every student. In that post I reported that the US…
READ ARTICLESometimes we get lost in complexity. The US Department of Education has a $68 billion annual budget from which it measures, sorts, records, studies, advocates for, and tracks public education in America. Yet ultimately, public education only needs a single mission, and it’s pretty much free to give and share—the pursuit of self-worth. This is…
READ ARTICLEThe following excerpts are from my book, The Seventh Power, detailing my visit with Hanna Soroka in 2017. The odds that Hanna Soroka would survive the winter of 1932 in Ukraine and live to see her eighth birthday were too small to calculate. Her parents were dead. Her younger brother and sister were also dead….
READ ARTICLEIn my last post I shared part of my interview with Mykola Onyshchanko, a survivor of the Holodomor of 1932 and 1933, during which millions of Ukrainian peasants were forcibly starved to death by Stalin’s Communist regime. Mykola, a young boy at the time, survived this period, and decades later, went on to become a…
READ ARTICLEThis bronze statue, titled Bitter Memory of Childhood, stands in the center of the walkway at the Holodomor Victims Memorial in Kiev, Ukraine, embodying the message that overreaching has consequences. “Death is the solution to all problems. No man—no problem.” —Joseph Stalin In 2017 I traveled to Kiev, Ukraine, to interview two survivors of the…
READ ARTICLERecently I got a new medicine cabinet above my sink in our bathroom at home. Its predecessor had been there for twenty years, so this was a big change for me and my stuff. Shortly after its installation, the trouble started. The fasteners that held the second glass shelf in place kept loosening. This in…
READ ARTICLEThe following is an excerpt from my book, The Seventh Power: One CEO’s Journey into the Business of Shared Leadership. For centuries, societies across the globe have been systematically indoctrinated into the belief system that power, control, and higher authority live “out there” somewhere, beyond our reach, in a faraway capital, with a government leader,…
READ ARTICLEThe data is in from Gallup’s 2024 Global Workplace Survey, and once again, it’s not good. Only 33 percent of American workers describe their work experience as deeply meaningful or engaging. Globally, the data gets worse: Only 23 percent of humanity’s 3 billion workers find their job engaging. Approximately 160 million Americans work, and 67…
READ ARTICLEThe Business of Shared Leadership and Hancock Lumber are excited to announce that Kevin Hancock has joined the Washington Speakers Bureau (WSB) network as a keynote speaker, bringing topics such as shared leadership, employee engagement, and healing from within to audiences across industries and geographies. The world’s largest talent agency specializing in corporate speaking events,…
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 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 #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 ARTICLEThe following is the introduction to my third book, 48WHISPERS From Pine Ridge and the Northern Plains. Please enjoy. As a teenager our family took a vacation to the Grand Tetons. I was so enamored with the majestic grandeur of the West that I subsequently returned one college summer to work in Yellowstone National Park. I happily…
READ ARTICLEIn September 2022, Kevin Hancock was the keynote speaker for the Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership (GBMP) Northeast Lean Conference. He spoke about his book The Seventh Power and how that amplifies leading, enabling, and nurturing (LEAN) through the collaboration effect. Kevin shared his journey to finding the shared leadership model, as well as what it has…
READ ARTICLE“Winds in the east, mist blowing in, like something is brewing and about to begin. Can’t put me finger on what lies in store, but I think what’s to happen all happened before.” —Bert, Mary Poppins It chokes me up to see news footage of ordinary Ukrainian citizens fighting the Russian army, street to street…
READ ARTICLEIn this podcast, Kevin Hancock speaks with Enlightenment of Change podcast host Connie Whitman. They speak together about his book The Seventh Power, One CEO’s Journey into the Business of Shared Leadership. They speak about the power of shared leadership and what the benefits are to both the employees and the company. Kevin speaks from experience…
READ ARTICLEIn this podcast, Kevin Hancock speaks to Being Human host Richard Atherton about his book The Seventh Power. They start by talking about how Kevin lost his voice and the journey that he undertook to Pine Ridge to find inner balance. He explains how this journey led him to the realization that other people’s voices are…
READ ARTICLE2021 IDEA-SHARING ADVENTURE SERIES BY KEVIN HANCOCK “Your choices and efforts, be they small or grand, define who you are.” —Richelle Goodrich Henry and Mamie Wilson migrated north from South Carolina to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1921. “I believe he was about the first black man they ever hired at US Steel,” his son Tim would…
READ ARTICLE2021 IDEA-SHARING ADVENTURE SERIES BY KEVIN HANCOCK “What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” —Buddha Despite an incalculable myriad of differences in backgrounds, experiences, and opportunities, every living human shares one common truth: We must all move into the future from the spot we presently occupy….
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