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July 4, 2023
In January 1941, as Europe and Asia were engulfed in war, a war that within the year would draw in the United States, President Franklin D. […]
July 3, 2023
Like many people in a world where we grew up with loud music and headphones, I have tinnitus – ringing in the ears. Unlike some people […]
July 1, 2023
About 20 years ago I organized a Never Fear Never Quit conference. Two of our speakers were Alan Hobson and Jamie Clark. They’d written an inspirational […]
June 21, 2023
Because the first edition of this book was so well-received at the 2023 conference of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) earlier this year, I’m […]
June 8, 2023
I appreciate the responses to my recent post on how a Near Drowning Experience cemented my decision to block of the next seven months to take […]
June 6, 2023
Last week I had a Near Drowning Experience. On a family vacation we were on a boat in the gulf coast, anchored about 250 yards from […]
May 1, 2023
Giving the first copy of the new book to DAISY Cofounders Mark and Bonnie Barnes at the AONL 2023 Conference This week we are at the […]
April 8, 2023
Core Action Value 3 in my course on The Twelve Core Action Values is Awareness. When I’m teaching it, I’ll sometimes go around the room and […]
April 5, 2023
The Values Coach Growth-Impact Model™ I’m leading a team of graduate students from University of Iowa College of Public Health on a study of the influence […]
March 16, 2023
Can you imagine Winston Churchill having said this to the British people during the German Blitz of WW2? “Bank runs are especially dangerous because they feed […]
March 2, 2023
Over the past several weeks I’ve heard from three people who each, after 20-30 years of loyal service to their company or hospital, received a layoff […]
February 23, 2023
Mark and Bonnie Barnes, cofounders of the DAISY Foundation, have done so much to thank nurses. To date more than 2.5 million nurses around the world […]
February 20, 2023
In the movie We Bought a Zoo, Benjamin Mee (played by Matt Damon) tells his two children Dylan and Rosie how he had to muster up […]
February 16, 2023
Leadership Job #1 is to Spark and Fan Extravagant Hope This is my working definition of hope, from a slide I shared in my presentations at […]
February 6, 2023
You don’t have to hold someone’s feet to the fire when they are willing to walk across hot coals on their own Twenty years ago the […]
March 16, 2016
Low Self Esteem and Personal Accountability I will take complete responsibility for my health, my happiness, my success and my life, and will not blame others […]
March 24, 2016
Do you get to work or have to work? “Work is the very fire where we are baked to perfection, and like the master of the […]
March 31, 2016
It Takes Character Strength to Go Out of Character Last week I spoke at the Superheroes Leadership Conference at Carilion Healthcare in beautiful Roanoke, Virginia. The […]
April 1, 2016
Surprise Me When I’m ordering coffee and am asked what kind I want, I’ll often just say “surprise me.” Almost without exception, what I’m surprised with […]
April 5, 2016
Learn from Those Gone Before “One of the most depressing facts about military history is how very little of the great warlords ever learn from the […]
April 7, 2016
Congress won’t, but you can adopt a Bill of Responsibilities On Friday April 1, I published an article (reproduced below) stating that Congress had enacted and […]
April 8, 2016
The 3 Levels of Commitment When I was in high school I was on the swimming team. At that time Doc Counsilman was world’s the preeminent […]
April 8, 2016
Fixing the Culture AND Fixing the Business The cover story of the current edition of Harvard Business Review by Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague is provocatively […]
April 14, 2016
Embrace the 4 Personal Freedoms “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in […]
April 15, 2016
The Power of a PledgePartner One of the features of the PledgePower course on The Self Empowerment Pledge is that once you sign up, you can […]
April 15, 2016
The Scariest Thing on Earth… … a blank yellow pad. … the first day on a new job … the first day out of an old […]
April 18, 2016
Protect the Positive In his book Creativity, Inc. Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull says that his favorite line from any Pixar movie is this one spoken by […]
April 21, 2016
There is Always Something You Can Do “It is possible to be without resources. It is inexcusable to be without resourcefulness. That is about character, not […]
April 25, 2016
In his book Creativity Inc., Pixar cofounder Ed Catmull describes some of the metaphors that creative directors use to define their roles. One, he says, uses […]
April 26, 2016
At Values Coach we help our clients foster a stronger culture of ownership. Over the years we have identified 7 essential steps (and 2 optional steps) […]