Last year, I traveled about 25% of the days. This year, I have more individual trips but fewer miles and days away from home because of a strategic change in how I travel. (More quick trips, less stringing together 2-3 trips into a really long trip.)
Between now and June 1st I have 10 trips away from home. It’s a lot. Not the most of people that I know, but a lot for me.
I remember a few years back about 10 years ago a speaker at the Willow Creek Leadership Conference saying there were two types of organizations that see huge gains.
The implications were simple. You could go out and buy talent and win in the short-term or you could build an organization that cultivates talent.
In a pluralistic society everyone is a minority somehow.
By minority, I mean that in an academic way. Meaning not a people group universally identified as a minority group but a group. We most often think of that in terms or race.
I mean our society is now acknowledging groups of self-identified people who have formed their own ad-hoc tribe around an affinity to create a minority.
Some examples…
This is basically my last week of doing the rankings. Next weekend I’ll do much the similar background work but turn my attention to individual NCAA match-ups and team stats.
Have you ever woken up with the thought, “I wonder why sardines do that?” and then spent four hours on a Saturday watching videos on YouTube, tracking down the latest on sardine research, or wondering about the first people who decided sardines needed to be paired with mustard?
Reminder: Today at 11:00 AM Pacific time I’m hosting a free webinar entitled: Blogging 201: Generating Content They’ll Love.
Here’s the description.
In this 45 minute webinar we’ll cover the following topics:
+ Topic generation
+ Establishing a writing routine
+ Writing for impact and engagement
+ Identifying your voice
+ Copyright and excerpting etiquette
+ Blog Post Titles, Featured Images, and Social Sharing
+ Basic search engines happy
This webinar is free open to anyone, so make sure to invite your friends.
A lot of businesses are successful for reasons they don’t quite grasp. They’ve just stumbled upon something that works and they’ve gone from there. Krispy Kreme is that company in my mind. They had something rare, people showing up with a light comes on for hot & fresh donuts. It was a uniquely southern thing. They’d grown for a generation. They had strong fundamentals.
When I was in Michigan for Open Grand Rapids I had the chance of catching up with some families in Romeo. I left that time really, really encouraged.
For some, it was the first time I’d seen them in almost 6 years. But you know what? For everyone, it felt like a couple weeks when we were last together.
Maybe it’s just because we’re now publishing curriculum? Or maybe it’s because after 4-5 years of trying I realized that buying curriculum is better than trying to do everything myself?
But as I’m out, talking to youth workers, I hear a phrase over and over again when I ask about what they are teaching. “We do our own thing.”
“Really? You write your own curriculum? Why?”