I was walking past a local Flight Centre travel agency the other day and noticed all of the brochures stacked up by the door. We have been thinking of having a spring break holiday in the sun and the brochures enticed me into the travel agency.
I have spent my career in the software technology business. Software is an intangible object. A bunch of zeros and ones stored on a device or media. I have traveled the planet creating belief in those 0’s and 1’s. It’s not about the software. It’s about what the software can do for you.
Some of my biggest leadership challenges have been as a father. Communicating, leading, and collaborating at work often pale in comparison to having to do the same thing at home…
For decades I never experienced a sun rise. Then I started doing overnight passages on sailboats. During the night, finding landmarks, tracking other boats, especially freighter traffic, and managing sails…
Culture means different things to different people. It can be listening to a symphony orchestra, looking at art, watching films (especially the non-Hollywood variety), or listening to street performers play beautiful music on a warm summer night in Aix-en-Provence. Whatever culture you prefer, the company you lead or work for has its own very specific culture.