“Culture is a competitive advantage.  A team with a great culture seems to have an extra layer of strength, tradition, resilience, belief, and power that is hard to defeat. “– Jon Gordon Can you put words to our culture?  How do you describe it to others? We are positive.  Positivity speaks encouragement.  Positivity believes that […]

How resilient are you?  How well do you respond to the setbacks in life? I was listening to Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook talk about coming back from a tragic loss she experienced.  Her husband died of a heart attack while working out on a vacation.  She has young children and it has been a challenge […]

“When strength is the mission, hard is the standard and work is the requirement.  When comfort is the objective, easy is acceptable and effort is an afterthought.” –  Brian Kight. Another good thought from organizational consultant Brian Kight. “When strength is the mission” I heard very many years ago that successful organizations are strong, fast […]

Where do you derive “energy”? Here’s the concept I read about in Dr. Henry Cloud’s book – Integrity. He says that the 2nd Law of physics deals with “entropy”.   It says that when a system is left to its own resources, it will cease to grow.  If a system isn’t growing, it will begin to […]