“If you’re going to win, win gracefully. If you’re going to love, love faithfully. 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” […]

“I’m trying to make the best of it.” Things happen that we didn’t want to happen.  Such circumstances can be very big or minor.  Illnesses, loss of loved ones.  Financial setbacks.  Name it.  They can go on and on. “Trying to make the best of it” sounds less than fully committed to me.  It has […]

“The realist sees reality as concrete.  The optimist sees reality as clay.” — Robert Brault   “PalletOne leaders happen to the world.”   Here’s what I mean by this statement:   We aren’t in charge of the circumstances we face.  Stuff happens.  Sometimes it is bad stuff.    When stuff happens, we control what we think about it.  We control what […]

Healthy organizations grow and change. These days change ramps up.  We grow and change at such a fast pace; it can be a bit unsettling. Fastballs come faster.  Curveballs break sharper.  We increasingly find ourselves facing tougher challenges.  We increasingly make more mistakes as we try to keep pace. Our mindset in the face of these challenges […]