by Rick | Jan 1, 2013 | Blog
Vintners (wine makers) know the best wine is made from grapes that have been the most stressed. Some vintners deliberately plant in bad soil, restrict water usage, plant the vines too close together, and prune frequently. There seems to be a lesson there. Or, as my...
by Rick | Jan 1, 2013 | Blog
The price of admission to Hobson’s Pond was traipsing through two pastures full of cow patties, crawling through two barbed wire fences, and chasing cattle from its muddy waters. Sometimes, the cows chased back. A broken down dock my Dad built sloped into the water...
by Rick | Jan 1, 2013 | Blog
One of these days I’ll follow instructions better. Maybe. The facilitators from the Center for Creative Leadership instructed our team to choose one of many photographs to serve as a metaphor of our current state of leadership. Naturally, I chose the wrong one because...
by Rick | Dec 15, 2012 | Blog
Author’s note: This is from a previous post that was well received by readers and, in light of the recent national tragedies in the Boston Marathon and Oklahoma City tornado, I thought it was timely to repost. It is very helpless to watch the collapsing of...
by Rick | Dec 8, 2012 | Blog
I whipped my wife’s car into the Jiffy Lube lot and was met immediately by an attendant who took my keys and drove the car into the bay. I walked into the office to fill out the paper work with the service manager who, at the time, was finishing a phone call. When he...
