Category: Updates

As I continue to dwell in the land of cancer, I continue to learn life lessons that are also leadership lessons.  Here are the latest things I’ve learned, either for the first time or for the umpteenth time. There may be more lessons for me, especially since my chemo won’t end until June of 2026. …

As I continue to dwell in the land of cancer and its treatment, I am learning lessons that can be applied to leadership (and to life).  This is the second post in a series offering some of the lessons I’m (re)learning. I find joy in my work.   I find cancer to be a bother…

I have been sojourning in the land of cancer since November 2024.  I’ve moved through surgery/recovery and radiation/recovery.  I’m now four weeks into a year of chemotherapy.  And I am learning a lot of lessons that I could apply to my leadership.  Here are a few. I expect that my cancer journey will continue to…

“Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts.” Wendell Berry We live in challenging times.  We look around us and we see change (expected and unexpected), unpredictability, trauma, distress, malaise, tribalism, nativism, jingoism, confusion.  How do we respond?  How should we respond?  How could we respond? Here at ACC we have four values to…

Here in the executive suite, we have several doors with long vertical handles.  Some doors open by pushing.  Some doors open by pulling.  And one will go either way.  (Which is my favorite door.) One day last week I wanted to pop in and say hello to some folks in the conference room.  I pushed…

I believe in being kind.  I have a little card on the wall of my office that says “always choose kindness”, and I try to live that out every day.  Does that mean I’m always kind?  No, because I am a flawed human being who makes mistakes, gets frustrated, and can unintentionally be unkind.  But…

I am on a year-long health journey in 2025.  In the early stages of this journey I’ve found myself being asked to “rate my pain” on a scale of one to ten.  Have you ever had to do that?  I find the question hard to answer. What, after all, constitutes a 2 on the pain…

ACC is committed to supporting the workforce needs of our region.  To that end, we are partnering with Texas Workforce Solutions, the City of Austin,  unions, and local employers to develop the Infrastructure Academy to ensure that our region has the skilled workers needed to meet our mobility and infrastructure goals in the next decade…

As I watched the NFL playoffs in January, the announcers periodically referenced  the “tush push”.  In the Philadelphia game (for the NFC conference championship) the announcers referred to the “brotherly shove”.  Both the tush push and the brotherly shove refer to the same short-yardage play, in which the team lines up behind the quarterback and…

I recently sold my parents’ house.  They built it, and it had sheltered the Scott family (and only the Scott family) for over 60 years.  A friend of mine referred to that house as a sacred space, and it got me thinking about sacred spaces. What are your sacred spaces?  Is it a house? A…