Do you know a great desk jockey?

New Leadership book on display at Chicago Midway airport

New Leadership book on display at Chicago Midway airport

 

Do you know a great desk jockey?

Not disc jockey.

Desk. As in someone who “rides” a desk all day.

A leader. Controlling things from the control room, sitting in a desk chair.

With the obligation option to visit the front lines.

Options temp us. To pick the best one for us, not necessarily for the others.

Is this what Ed Fuller is saying?

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Isn’t it ironic how the bigger our dream, the louder this becomes?

Soldier saluting the White House flags

Everyone hopes for better days ahead

 

Isn’t it ironic how the bigger our dream, the louder the chatter that’s its impossible?

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Three reasons we can get away with being disorganized at home

Best wishes everyone

Best wishes everyone

 

There reasons we can get away with being disorganized at home:

  1. at best, only one or two people care (not enough pressure to change)
  2. our paycheck stays the same (no financial incentive)
  3. because we’ve become blind to it and not shocked by it (what we accept by default becomes the standard)

We can battle this.

We can win.

But what’s the point?

And that’s the point?

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But wait, yesterday’s answer was wrong

nice sentiment

Here’s to all of us, that we find peace, joy, and contentment

 

But wait, yesterday’s answer was wrong. We don’t get to stop worrying when we die.

Unless.

Unless we’ve set things up so we haven’t left a mess for our loved ones to clean up.

We should leave things better than we found them.

How on earth could anyone not see that responsibility coming and completely ignore it?

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One of the most profound, tough love messages ever written on a napkin

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a profound tough love message written at a random lunch meeting

 

One of the most profound, tough love messages ever written on a napkin.

Written three summers ago on a Chick-fil-A restaurant napkin.

Translation: We will remain a nation of crybabies, but you don’t have to be one of them.

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Bold Moves.

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The overlooked goal after significant progress is made

maintaining momentum

any questions about maintaining momentum? (photo from yesterday’s class)

 

The overlooked goal after significant progress is made?

Maintaining it.

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Why send your wife flowers two days in a row?

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yesterday while running in the dark

sending flowers

today while running before lunch

Why send your wife flowers two days in a row? Because you can. And because it’s easy.

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What the?

what the?

what the?

Some things defy logical explanation. Like why we have so much stuff we’ll never use.

Or maybe all our stuff is what holds our sanity together. Tough one to figure out.

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