Category: Monday Motivator

“Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.” – Mary SchmichIt was somewhere during the mid-1980s when our company became hip to diversity. In those days, diversity was all about removing barriers for women and “people of color”.We brought in…

“Competition is .. not an act of oppression or abrasion – I’ve worked with my best friends in direct competition.” – Diane SawyerOne of my earliest football memories is being a boy scout usher at Michigan Stadium on the day when Michigan State came to town. Then as now, the U of M regular season…

“Competition is .. not an act of oppression or abrasion – I’ve worked with my best friends in direct competition.” – Diane SawyerOne of my earliest football memories is being a boy scout usher at Michigan Stadium on the day when Michigan State came to town. Then as now, the U of M regular season…

None of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up from our own bootstraps. We got here because somebody bent down and helped us. – Thurgood MarshallFor my friend, Frank Eliason, the four words “How can I help” transformed him and in the process, also transformed our concept of exceptional customer care.At…

None of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up from our own bootstraps. We got here because somebody bent down and helped us. – Thurgood MarshallFor my friend, Frank Eliason, the four words “How can I help” transformed him and in the process, also transformed our concept of exceptional customer care.At…

Scott’s First Leadership Maxim – “Any unresolved team member issue becomes a leadership issue.”I vividly remember the first time I fired somebody .It was 1982 and I was managing a small cable operation in Roseville. I had to discharge a technician because he was -too- gung ho. He cared so much about the company that…

At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? …. I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen,…

My friend Kathleen reminded me of the spiritual maxim, “Bloom where you are planted,” this week. She’s a shining example.After relocating with her young child, she discovered that the teaching career she had planned on wasn’t materializing. Rather than abandoning her home base, she pondered what opportunities might lie right their in the neighborhood. Thinking carefully…

My friend Kathleen reminded me of the spiritual maxim, “Bloom where you are planted,” this week. She’s a shining example.After relocating with her young child, she discovered that the teaching career she had planned on wasn’t materializing. Rather than abandoning her home base, she pondered what opportunities might lie right their in the neighborhood. Thinking carefully…

Let’s talk about one of the most important laws of success. It’s a fundamental, universal law that every spectacular achiever understands and practices every day. And it’s a law that influences everyone from the most destitute homeless person, to the multi-millionaire. If you understand and act based on this simple law, you will be successful,…