Posts by Joe Schum
On Resilience
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. ~ C.S. Lewis
Covid, two hurricanes (one displacing us for the next four to six months) and now pneumonia have taught me that there is a simpler and more humble way.
Read MoreA New Lt. Dan Teaches Us A Few Things About Chaos
What guides you in times of chaos and crisis? How do you show up for uncertainty and ambiguity? At work and at home, with strangers and loved ones? Don’t wait and consider it until it’s “too late,” think about what you will change before that “next time” does materialize. Let’s not ignore the hippo in the room. Trust me, he’s there, and is taking up a lot of space. Let’s clean out that attic! Hippo first.
Read MoreEpisode 65: What Elk?
I think this is one of the most if not THE most important question one can ask when in a curious mode. Sure, right now some of you sage communicators are saying “WHY?” Yes, WHY? is an important and powerful question. This one is arguably better…
Read MoreEpisode 64: Say My Name
Practice is necessary and doesn’t make one perfect like the old saying goes. My latest experience with practice, something I preach to clients about constantly!
Read MoreOn Optimism
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” ~ Bishop Fulton Sheen
Seems simple and not always easy. Especially in today’s polarized world of politics, culture and technology.
Read MoreBoo Radley’s Front Porch
“Boo was our neighbor…he gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife, and our lives.” While watching the end to one of the 20th century’s great stories, I was captivated by a premise, a thing really, one that gets a lot of attention in today’s leadership circles – I’m talking about empathy.
“One time Atticus said, ‘You never really knew a man until you stood in his shoes and walked around in them.’ Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.”
Read MoreOn Prayer
“I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.” ~ Mother Theresa
In 1982 I had the amazing good fortune to meet Mother Theresa.
Read MoreMy Kind Of Nice
I am listening to a conversation about being nice vs. being kind and realizing a powerful message: these are not the same. Being nice is about being pleasant in a situation. The first definition in Dictionary.com is pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit. Kindness however requires much more active participation and deliberation. Kindness, IMO, is…
Read MoreOn Teamwork
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” ~ Mother Theresa
Teamwork, co-creation, interests in a common cause for the greater good of something and someone.
Read MoreEpisode 63: Enablement Island
New Hire alert! We leaders, hiring managers have the unenviable task of finding, evaluating and eventually hiring new talent for our respective organizations. It’s a tough job, part science, part intuition. When it’s all over and we actually come to agreement with an individual the first thing we do is…send them away…to training!
Read MoreOn Practice
“Whoever wishes to rank first must remain the last one and the servant of all”.
~ Mark 9:35
Ambition, pride and hubris…among all the other ways we can channel our behavior; is human.
Read MoreLike.
There are 3 main definitions of Like with 34 nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions, across those three. And one interjection. It’s that one interjection, considered informal, that I’m here to rant about. It looks like this… Informal. (used in speech, often non-volitionally or habitually, to preface a sentence, to fill a pause, to…
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