Raising the level of initiative
The late great Dr. Stephen Covey once said that courage is raising the level of initiative. Dr. Covey of course is a far more eloquent speaker than I am. Being the godly man that he was I doubt he would ever put it the way I heard it: “raising the level of...This one time, at band camp…
If you want an audience to stop and listen with rapt attention, tell them a story. But not just any story. Remember the character Michelle, played by Alyson Hannigan, in the American Pie movies and her signature line, “this one time, at band camp..?” Out...Eat your supper, kids in Africa are starving?
Anyone remember being told that by your parents? Eat your supper, kids in Africa are starving? Really? Name one. Turns out if you can name one, that kids gets a meal. “If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will,” Mother Theresa....Your resumé doesn’t suck, you suck!
Typical conversation in my campus office goes like this: “Uh, Mr. Price my resume sucks, can you help me with it?” “Let me take a look at it.” Resume is reluctantly handed over like its got anthrax on it. “I did it for another class, but...Commander’s Intent
“It’s about keeping people and planes moving.” That was a mantra attributed to a former boss of mine who was the security director at Denver International Airport. She would chant this mantra, almost literally, to the FAA and TSA regulators and to...
