RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 22, 2017

Kind of in the same way that someone traveling in a foreign land might try to make himself better understood by speaking louder and louder. Yesterday, if at all possible. To make that happen, some leaders reduce themselves to the idea of “the louder and harsher the better.”. But not all things work that way.

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RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 27, 2017

Yet this was the same river that travels over 2,000 miles and drains the watershed of 31 states and two Canadian provinces. I was at one end of Lake Itaska in north-central Minnesota – the headwaters of the river. It was maybe six feet across and about two feet deep. So how does it grow to become the river of legend and song?

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RapidStart Leadership

MARCH 7, 2017

Without any more context than that, we wondered what sort of philosophical imperative the sign was trying to evoke in busy travelers. At the station, there was a sign hanging on the wall by the ticket booth that advised us to “Mind the Gap.”

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RapidStart Leadership

AUGUST 1, 2017

By the last day of camp, group cohesion had grown to the extent that the boys told the researchers that they wanted to all travel home on the same bus together. In every situation, as the boys discovered that they could only succeed by working together, the frictions and barriers between the groups began to dissolve. Heading Home from Camp.

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 4, 2017

When Captain Robert Scott’s returning Arctic party was down to three surviving men, they were hit by a final blizzard, a ceaseless, battling roar of a storm that made further travel impossible. Almost out of food, water and heat, they hunkered down in hopes of an impossible rescue.

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RapidStart Leadership

JANUARY 2, 2017

Life is going to happen – weather, travel, health, and other events can combine to put a snag in the plan. Also, I’m going to authorize myself to add a little flavor shot to my coffee on days that I meet my running goal. It’s a simple way to celebrate having the discipline to put in the work every day. Build in some flexibility.

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RapidStart Leadership

JANUARY 31, 2017

He’s traveling alone to a place he’s never been to work with people he’s never met. As I write this, my own son, 20 years old, is high in the air on the far side of the globe. My phone is close at hand as I wait for word of his arrival on a distant continent. He’ll be out there for several months.

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