How To Build A Legendary Organization

How To Build A Legendary Organization

This is my birthplace in Brunswick, GA. My wife and I located it this weekend while vacationing on Jekyll Island nearby. I lived in this house for the first three years of my life when my parents worked at the nearby shipyard building warships for World War II. My dad...
Encourage Your Associates to “Show Off”

Encourage Your Associates to “Show Off”

She had the entire line of the check-out counter completely mesmerized. It was as if she was using us as her test audience for a comedy try-out. And she was funny and entirely unleashed. Yet, she never slowed her rhythmic action on the grocery story register and...
Leading Amazing Harpers

Leading Amazing Harpers

As my niece, Julie was preparing her three-year-old, Harper, for bed, it came time for bedtime prayers. “What are you thankful for, Harper?” Julie asked her. Assertively and without a moment’s hesitation, Harper replied, “I’m thankful for...
Service Delivery From Contented Employees

Service Delivery From Contented Employees

In 1907, Carnation Evaporated Milk introduced a brand-new ad to promote its product, “made from contented cows.”  Since I lived on a cattle farm and milked a cow twice a day for most of my teenage years, I thought a lot about the productivity of cows with high...