by Jonathan | Aug 1, 2019 | Leadership
Have you ever been in the zone? The zone is that place where time seems to disappear and we really submerge into the task at hand. I love getting into the zone. I love learning. I love the process of becoming a craftsman. And all of this? It’s a problem. Maybe...
by Jonathan | Jul 31, 2019 | Leadership
Go long on your work relationships. What does that mean? I once heard someone say that if you can’t picture yourself working with someone for 15 years, then don’t work with them for a single day. While not exactly a Lao Tzu-ish observation, there is buried...
by Jonathan | Jul 30, 2019 | Leadership
All of the bumper stickers on the car I was following this morning focused on boiling down a single complex topic into pure stupid. I felt myself getting dumber. There was an upside, though. They sparked a thought. I thought about whether any of us apply bumper...
by Jonathan | Jul 29, 2019 | Leadership
I recently reread a magazine that was five years old. It was in a stack of other magazines here in the house. I just happened upon it. The novelty of finding something exactly five years old (the August 2014 edition) was not wasted. The magazine is five years old and...
by Jonathan | Jul 25, 2019 | Leadership
Part of the difficulty with harvesting institutional knowledge from someone who is retiring is capturing the “feel” component. Once you have been in a job for some time, you develop a feel for what to do. It’s hard to quantify, and it’s hard...
