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Provide Clarity

Posted on August 12th, 2020

"We can’t promise certainty;

however we can provide clarity."

My boss spoke this phrase yesterday. I wrote it down in my BuJo and have been contemplating it. As a person with the identity of Ambassador of Hope and Beauty, it’s important for me to remember this. I need to not overpromise in the hope that I speak; and I need to strive for clarity when I speak strategically as I point toward vision.

My Sons’ Lives Matter

Posted on June 14th, 2020

Some things are worth breaking quarantine rules for. What a treasure to take my son to his first protest the other day.

#BLACKLIVESMATTER

Maximize the Potential of the Wind

Posted on September 23rd, 2019

Know what your "ship" is; know who your "crew" is. Understand what they are capable of. Define a high standard and point in the right direction. Then adapt along the way to maximize what the "wind" offers. It doesn’t even mean changing course; it only means changing tactics. Enjoy the journey. "Sailing" is fun. The stories are treasures.

The pessimist complains about the wind.

The optimist expects the wind to change.

A leader adjusts the sails.

—William Arthur Ward

Culture

Posted on August 28th, 2019

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast"

—Peter Drucker

I like this quote. I’m a big fan of strategy. But I know that ethos is even more important.

Bend The Curve

Posted on August 8th, 2019

At Global Leadership Summit today. Craig Groeschell with the first keynote on leadership influence:

"Bend The Curve" rethinking traditional ROI cost:quality graph. The ideas are available if we have the courage. Innovate.

Make it better; offer hope; change the world.

Leadership and Design Principles

Posted on August 1st, 2019

Create excellent systems and ideal processes to best support a brilliant team.

Intentionally develop what is usable and useful by focusing on the end experience.

Imagine the experiencer’s situational hopes and needs; then dream further about how to care for what they don’t even yet realize would be better.

Empathize with the misfits of society; never settle in curating only for those in the middle of the bell curve.

Design for humanity.

Strive for justice and peace.

Love everyone along the journey.

Consider every perspective.

Pursue sustainable excellence.

Refine continually.

Enhance the good; discard the clumsy; innovate the untapped potential.

Illuminate the future; building toward virtuous legacy and health for all.

Pioneer possibilities.

Optimistically always forge ahead.

Be ambassadors of hope and beauty.

Value effective as well as efficient.

Multiply intuition and knowledge.

Relentlessly pursue the greatest intersection of stewardship and creativity.

Coach and reveal beauty to enhance story and experience.

Maximize ideation and strategy.

Progress Requires Disruption

Posted on July 14th, 2019

Creative disruption is a beautifully healthy thing. It freaks out the status quo folks, but we would wither without the artists and leaders.

"It is the business of the future to be dangerous. The major advances in civilization are processes that all but week the societies in which they occur."

-Alfred North Whitehead

hope-filled collaborative-leadership

Posted on July 11th, 2019

Contemplating the virtue of hope-filled, collaborative-leadership, seasoned with authentic ownership and light humor to keep from having his progressive thinking turn too many people off to the ideas bringing forward…

I love such a leadership model. Instead of doing things the way that they have always been done, I want to help people work for the win-win of problems being solved using current common-sense and strategizing also with future hopes. I know that this is something I want to keep working on as far as what our approach to venues is and how we grow in preparation for the season to come.

Without Access to Hope, Fear Takes Over

Posted on December 3rd, 2018

"When you can’t access your hopes, all you have to live by are your fears."

—Shankar Vedantam

I voice-texted this final line of the podcast into Evernote from my phone while listening back on October 17, 2018 at 9:02 PM. I just pulled up the link to share: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=657547685

Ispire Hope and Wonder

Posted on October 4th, 2018

As a creative, it’s important for me to remember that wonder belongs and is in all people…

People are longing for the wonderful. Imagine, hope, long for; creating a glimpse of the wonder that we as artists see…

I can inspire people reveal depth in beauty by crafting moving experiences and to breathe in hope and redemption to storytelling. It is a responsibility to move people to respond to the wonder of hope. To engage. To join. To be with. To partner. To dream further and increase in wonder.

I went to the Story Conference the other week. I was just reflecting on my journaling from the conference. This section of scribbles jumped out at me today and I thought I would share what I’m contemplating.

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