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 | 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...
