Category Archives: Team Building
FIVE HANDED NAVIGATION
- August 14, 2021
- Fundamentals, Leadership & Motivation, Life Lines, Team Building, Top Dog Success, Visioning
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LIFE’S TOUGH! The CHALLENGES are FORMIDABLE The RESPONSIBILITIES are AWESOME The EXPECTATIONS are OUT OF SIGHT And TIME is always TOO SHORT for what we want and need to do Consequently, it’s increasingly clear that getting through life “on our own two feet with our own two hands” won’t get the job entirely done. We […]
Read moreTouches
- November 17, 2016
- Fundamentals, Leadership & Motivation, Life Lines, Team Building, Top Dog Success, Visioning, Woodshed Moments
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Success in basketball depends on how many “touches” you get. You can’t shoot the ball or get points or get assists if you can’t get any “touches”. If you’re a dependable ball handler or shooter, you’ll get lots of “touches”. Your coach and team mates will seek you out. However, “touches” don’t come easy. You […]
Read moreForce the Issue
- July 4, 2016
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In describing the ERTIA UNLIMITED “Lifecourse Diagram”, one of the major points to be made is how important it is to make ourselves “helpable” … i.e., by showing some degree of initiative … by being a “Player” , with an inclination to advance and with some reasonable prospects and positive possibilities of making life happen. […]
Read moreBuck Stops Here
- June 15, 2016
- Fundamentals, Leadership & Motivation, Life Lines, Team Building, Visioning
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The wife was cleaning out the refrigerator shelves but couldn’t figure out how to remove a retaining rack, so she called Super-Hurango for help! [OK, it was probably a ploy to make retired SH feel useful!] A 22-second assessment, including two “trial” but failed approaches, finally ended in a successful rack removal venture. [She then […]
Read moreBreaking Better
- March 14, 2016
- Fundamentals, Leadership & Motivation, Team Building, Visioning
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I reflexively wince when seeing or hearing reference to the Kentucky motto: “Unbridled Spirit”. Of course, there’s the superficial first inclination – at least in Kentucky – to conjure images of “unbridled” horses galloping idyllically through open meadows, running with the wind. How liberating! One also might picture the unbridled, unsaddled horses of […]
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“One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.” Arthur Sullivan
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After a slow start in Appalachian Pennsylvania, then "giving my life to science" for the better part of 50 years, I've come to appreciate how much "Good" there is to be experienced, yet how much still needs to be done in the world and how ill-equipped many are for the journey. My mission and my passion is to change the latter for the better.