“Excellent businesses don’t believe in excellence, only in constant improvement and constant change.” – Tom Peters, in his book, Thriving on Chaos Being excellent is a daunting goal.  Especially when you aren’t excellent at the beginning. Peters breaks this down into change and improvement.  Every day. Change is the decision point.  It’s a realization that the status quo […]

“If you’re going to win, win graceful. If you’re going to love, love faithful. If you’re going to learn, learn by teaching. If you’re going to fall, fall reaching.” I scribbled the refrain from this country song in my Bible almost 30 years ago. At the time, I was working on a “plant turn around” […]

“We don’t rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training.” – Attributed to Archilochus, Greek soldier, circa 650 B.C. One of the neat outcomes of these notes is that through the years of writing them and reading them, we refine our joint understanding of how best to think, […]

Progress is always preceded by change.  What are you challenging right now?  What change are you driving?   As each day starts fresh, we ought to consider how we can get better.  Considering how we ought to improve each day is a process involving intentional acts.   One act is an assessment.  Did the day’s activity […]