Day One Reads – Things No One Else Can Teach Us One of my key daily leadership questions is tied to the value of “growth”: “What have I done today to make it more likely someone will learn something?” A few weeks ago I was reminded I was missing out on one of the key …
Day One Reads – The Gift of Struggle I love a book you can devour on a flight that lasts less than three hours. This little tome had me nodding and smiling the whole trip (with a couple of tears thrown in), and even had me stay in my seat as the plane emptied to …
Our Day One Direct Support Effort As COVID-19 has changed the world around us, I’ve found myself thinking about the experiences that shaped me in the past and how I want them to impact my behaviours in the present. Who was I in the past? An event planner and educator. How to do our jobs …
Day One Reads – Everyday Legacy I’m thrilled that for this edition of Day One Reads we get to feature a book that is being released TODAY! I was lucky enough to receive an advanced reading copy a couple of months ago, and I’ve been excited to share and recommend this wonderful book right out …
Day One Reads – The Passion Paradox As I prepped this week’s edition of Day One Reads, I realized would be necessary to categorize the books I feature moving forward. I loved last week’s book, and yet I found myself pulling significantly more passages from this week’s book despite the fact I didn’t feel it …
Day One Reads – The Jackass Whisperer The Instagram poll has spoken, so your next edition of Day One Reads focuses on The Jackass Whisperer by Scott and Alison Stratten. When I closed The Jackass Whisperer I thought: that was different than I expected…but I’m not disappointed. Because I didn’t read the jacket before I …
Day One Reads – The Opposable Mind Last week’s Day One Reads focused on a book that was released that very day. For this week’s edition I go back in time a little, highlighting a book released in 2007. Category*: Research-based (though an argument could be made for the Reflective category) Author: Roger Martin About …
Planning Celebrations Why are goals and milestones so awesome? Because they are pre-planned celebrations. Celebrations of growth, achievements, success, and progress. And we spend a lot of time, energy, and effort on these planned celebrations — when it comes to projects, careers, our businesses — but what about for our own growth and development? How do we expect to develop …
