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Leadership Lessons from the Land of Cancer, Part I
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…
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Leadership Lessons from the Land of Cancer, Part I
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…
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Be Joyful
“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…
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To Push or to Pull
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…