by Rick | Mar 30, 2013 | Blog
I recently listened to Coach Bill Snyder – Kansas State University’s legendary football coach – at a leadership seminar. He took a zero-and-twelve football team in the early ‘90’s and, three years later, they were 10-2. He retired once and the team...
by Rick | Mar 25, 2013 | Blog
My family likes to go skiing with me for the same reason people go to NASCAR races: they like to see spectacular crashes. I try not to disappoint them so I frequently have what is termed, “double-eject yard sales,” which means I’ve crashed so hard my skis go down the...
by Rick | Mar 19, 2013 | Blog
How many Power Point presentations have you endured hoping it was still socially acceptable to hurl rotten vegetables and fruit at the speaker? The nature of my profession has parked me in the audience of countless presentations. Some, I have wondered how on earth the...
by Rick | Mar 15, 2013 | Blog
Driving in a fog I saw the train at the last second. If my reaction time had been a nanosecond slower, I most likely would not be writing these words. The fog was so thick it was like looking through glasses smeared with gray Vaseline. For sixty miserable miles...
by Rick | Mar 12, 2013 | Blog
I have spent far too much energy in my life worrying about what people think of me. I spent 20 years as a minister in the fishbowl of public observation worrying about the clothes I wore (he’s wearing shorts?!), what kind of car I drove (we’re paying him too much if...
