Tag: Leadership

  • Better to share thanks like Hanks than be scary like Larry

    Food 4 Thought: I am excited to bring you some Food 4 Thought with the intent of sparking new ways to look at and approach your day, tackle the changes we are faced with in life and maximize the opportunities you have to connect and grow with one another. Today, I am inspired by another…

  • Questions Impact Culture

    Questions Impact Culture

    Does (y)our approach around asking questions have an impact on culture? A couple of years ago, I facilitated a discussion on another forum centered around the questions spurned from a previous post : No Capes. It was interesting to enter into dialog with folks both within and outside my profession around the topic of people…

  • How can I do better?

    We can become complicit in evil if we are not careful. Our behavior in our workplaces, schools, churches, communities and families and the way we react to events can send signals : we can choose to send ripples of healing kindness or ripples of bitterness; ripples of proactive improvement of the status quo or ripples…

  • Hello in there – Reprise on LinkedIn

    Read the updated post : Hello in there : The call to seek connection and be known on my LinkedIn account.

  • Four4Soaring Launches a Podcast

    Four4Soaring Launches a Podcast

    Hi Soarers! I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that I have been dabbling with recording podcast versions of the blog. The podcast can be found on multiple platforms where podcasts are available like Spotify. I am using an app called Anchor and my iPhone to create the podcasts and right now they…

  • Brene’ Browns Wholehearted Parenting Manifesto

    Brene’ Browns Wholehearted Parenting Manifesto

    I just finished reading Daring Greatly and I wanted to share the link to Brene’ Brown’s Wholehearted Parenting Manifesto. I was blown away by her final words on the subject that both summed this section up so well and were incredibly convicting personally as well. Who we are and how we engage with the world…

  • A mom for all seasons

    A mom for all seasons

    If many of you were to write a blog about your mom and titled it ” A mom for all seasons” I suspect your story might be about one special woman who showered you with unconditional love, who was your rock, your inspiration and a guiding light in your life. Still others of you might…

  • Surviving change without going ape

    Surviving change without going ape

    How many times have we left for work, fully intending to play the part of the ever-composed, quietly observant, always benevolent Jane Goodhall, only to find ourselves at the end of the day, flinging feces at our teammates in a primitive display of dominance and one-upmanship? “You cannot get through a single day without having an…

  • What are you choosing to take with you?

    What are you choosing to take with you?

    Do you need all that junk you are carrying around? How much of what you encounter every day is because of what you choose to take with you everywhere you go? Luke Skywalker: What’s in there? (Motioning toward a cave) Yoda: Only what you take with you. (Luke grabs his belt with lightsaber and blaster).…

  • Pepop: A Decorated Veteran of the Game of Life | Four For Soaring

    Pepop: A Decorated Veteran of the Game of Life | Four For Soaring

    Some months ago I wrote a story about my grandfather and how he taught me how to be full of CHIT: Curious | Humble | Intentional | Teachable. Today, I want to talk about this World War II veteran and how he has lived a life as a gritty hero, not just of World War…