by Rick | Aug 8, 2014 | Blog
Tony, the tour director, stood at the front of our bus and said with a soft southern drawl, “There are forty strangers here that will spend the next eleven days together in a foreign country and I have one basic rule: 1. No Whinin’ There were plenty of...
by Rick | Aug 1, 2014 | Blog
The legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers- Vince Lombardi- would gather his players around, hold up a football, and say, “This, gentleman, is a football.” I have a woodworking shop full of mechanized equipment, but nothing feels quite as good as...
by Rick | Jul 11, 2014 | Blog
It was January in Kansas in 2010, and volunteers stood in a line one-hundred yards long outside the Kansas Coliseum. As one security guard said to me, “You’d think this was a rock concert!” It wasn’t. It was volunteers who stood in line for hours waiting to package...
by Rick | Jul 2, 2014 | Blog
One was our junior high football coach and his breath smelled like a fermented dishrag used to wipe ashtrays. If we went after water during 100-degree heat, this Marine drill-sergeant-turned-teacher called us sissies. To see how tough our stomachs were, he made us lay...
by Rick | May 7, 2014 | Blog
It starts with you and must engage others – Kansas Leadership Center; Principle #3 One of Michelangelo’s students asked him what he saw as he gazed upon a dirty marble slab. Michelangelo replied, “I see an angel hidden inside and I will carve until I set him...
