by Rick | Aug 30, 2013 | Blog
When I owned a photography business, summer was full of photographing high school seniors. My favorite part of the process was when they stopped in the studio to look at their proofs. I believed that everyone who came in my studio was beautiful and my job was to use...
by Rick | Aug 16, 2013 | Blog
Pick a situation in your life right now that has chaos. That didn’t take long, did it? Life is continually full of chaos. However, there is a great leadership principle I learned many years ago has been the most important daily leadership principle I...
by Rick | Aug 13, 2013 | Blog
Imagine the next person that walks in your office with a complaint has a monkey on their back. Maybe it’s a cute little guy that makes cute little monkey sounds but it’s totally distracting its owner. Or it might be a big hairy, smelly ape that’s stinking up the room...
by Rick | Jul 23, 2013 | Blog
I am a collaborative leader by nature and believe in the power in a unified voice. If someone from the outside comes in, I prefer a facilitator who is able to coax the answer out of the group as opposed to a consultant who tries to tell the group what the answer is. A...
by Rick | May 9, 2013 | Blog
I was dressed in a suit when I got the call to offload a semi truck in our new distribution center. The trucker arrived 3 days earlier than expected and our warehouse man was in the hospital. I went back to the hotel and changed into old tennis shoes, a ratty pair of...
