Be a Visionary
My Dad started CCB from our kitchen table one night during dinner. At the time, he was serving as a church board member and had learned that the church couldn’t afford software. He was working in the field of technology and was appalled at this. He told the board members he would hunt down some kind of deal, thinking there certainly had to be a company out there tha...
There’s a ditch on either side of these conversations ahead of you. On one side, there’s the ditch of your selfish motives. And on the other side are your unrealistic expectations.
Cross-departmental conflict can feel like you’re stepping into a minefield. Pride, defensiveness, and territorial feelings are all possibilities lying right below the surface.
On Building Relationships
It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. That phrase has become so commonplace it’s almost like white noise. She got that first interview because of who she knew, he scored that big promotion because of who he knew, they got that recommendation because of who they know, we won the award because of who we know.
Sometimes this phrase i...
Quieting the judge in your head
Disney specializes in taking serious and heavy concepts and making them light and funny. It was no surprise to see this one played out on the screen as I watched the movie, Luca, in my living room next to my sons.
In the movie, the main character is a sea creature who decides he’d rather live amongst the humans on land. He begins to discove...
Leadership Leaves Scars
But it’s worth it
I got my biggest and most prominent scar when I was 12 years old. My dad and I were helping a neighbor move a large tree that had fallen during a colossal thunderstorm. My Dad tied one end of a rope around the trunk of the tree and the other end to a stake that he began driving into the ground with a sledgehammer. As I watched my dad ...
Doing business at your own pace
My daughter is going off to college in the Fall and while I’m so proud of her for taking the opportunity to leave home and grow, I’m also sad to say that she’s going all the way to Ohio. It’s a small Christian school that she loves and it’s within driving distance, but it does require driving through Chicago. On a recent trip...
As a mother, I spend a lot of time trying to influence my children to do what I want them to do—get dressed, eat meals, be obedient, refrain from booger mining in front of grandma. I used to think that the reason they wouldn’t listen was because I must not be communicating properly. I only needed to speak louder, say it clearer, say it again, then again, then yell and surely they wo...
Leading Through Change
In March of 2020, I boarded a plane to Florida, six months pregnant and toting two toddlers. We were going to see my parents and spend a couple days in the sun, away from the doldrums of the gray winter of the North. A few days later, I sat on the porch with my parents, in the light of the Floridian sunset, discussing whether I could make it back home to my husba...
