Corporate CoDriver: The Nature of Impatience
by My mentor, Jut Meininger worked diligently the last several years of his life to get me to just give up the concept of “expecting”. Sure, …
Tag: Knower/Judger
9/11 – Loving What Is
From Volume 4, Issue 9:Ten years ago, some people who didn’t like the United States of America and what it stands for hijacked airplanes and caused havoc.
Corporate CoDriver: Setting the limits
Entrepreneurs learn the hard way. I met recently with partners of a start up renewable energy company. They recounted a story of one of their early employees who had been with them from the start. This individual lost the “passion” for the mission some time ago, but for some reason or other was still in place, still plugging along.
Corporate CoDriver: Ready….Aim….FIRE!
During the American Revolutionary War, the British Military brought centuries of European military engagement strategy to the battlefield. In Europe, battling armies would walk up in lines within 25-35 meters of each other, raise their muskets and fire at the enemy (who was doing the same thing at them).
Corporate CoDriver: Why do any of us have to buy into this crap?
This past weekend, I went out to Southern California to co-drive for an old friend at the Gorman Ridge Rally. Nothing unusual about this race …
Corporate CoDriver: Pass it on.
At a recent coaching session with a very talented IT client of mine (we’ll call her Marsha) she recounted a story to me about a particularly contentious negotiating (well, actually fault-finding) conversation she facilitated between a client of hers and her client’s client.
A Tale of Two Dogs
From Volume 4, Issue 8:When we lost our family’s first dog 15 years ago, it was perfect timing. Youngest daughter is out of the nest, dog’s dead…we’re free! I lasted about 45 days, then went down to the Humane Society and adopted Beelzebub (Bubba for short), a near-pure black Lab and Gabriel (Gabby), a wound-up, wacko border collie–hound mix. These two spent the next 12 years as adoring brothers, roaming free in our front yard on a busy corner in our little town of Webster Groves, Missouri, and teaching a valuable lesson about the importance of knowing when to be in your Knower/Judger and when to be in your Learner/Researcher.
You Know the Type, but Do You Really?
From Volume 4 Issue 8We only have one opportunity to make a first impression, and sometimes we don’t even get that opportunity. Almost universally, we make judgments about people as soon as we meet them. Tall, short. Fat, skinny. Attractive, unattractive. Cool, uncool. Rich, poor. My kind, not my kind. Are the judgments you’re making getting in the way of your success?
Corporate CoDriver: Ships Passing in the Night
Friday I had a very busy day. I worked out (as I try to do on a daily basis, but sometimes my Knower/Judger rules against …
Managing uncomfortable processes…thrive or struggle. WANT is the answer.
I met one morning this week with a coaching client who is working very hard on managing the processes that will yield the results he …