Battling Complacency – Part III Connections and Actuators
Monday Morning Musings Volume XXIV, Number 32 (Issue 1193) August 10, 2026 Battling Complacency – Part III Connections and Actuators Teamwork and Teammates At our core humans are social creatures. In order to survive, let alone function effectively, we need others in our life. More to the point, if we are to form and sustain beneficial […]
Battling Complacency – Part II: Connections and Actuators
Monday Morning Musings Volume XXIV, Number 31 (Issue 1192) August 3, 2026 Battling Complacency – Part II: Connections and Actuators The Work There are a number of things that factor into our work and workday that can either cause or reduce the risk of complacency. For example, consider the Venn Diagram (Figure 1) below. Here […]
Battling Complacency – Part I
Monday Morning Musings Volume XXIV, Number 30 (Issue 1191 ) July 27, 2026 Battling Complacency – Part I The solution to last week’s puzzle was complacency. In addition to hearing from puzzle players, I also received comments from multiple readers who expressed their frustration with varying degrees of complacency that they feel exist within their respective […]
Inaction – The Ultimate Existential Threat
Monday Morning Musings Volume XXIV, Number 29 (Issue 1190 ) July 20, 2026 Inaction – The Ultimate Existential Threat How often have you heard someone make reference to an existential threat? Perhaps I have become acutely aware of the term’s popularity due to its growing use by the talking heads I routinely listen to. Or, it […]
Character Still Matters
Monday Morning Musings Volume XXIV, Number 28 (Issue 1189 ) July 13, 2026 Character Still Matters What do you stand for? In this case, the word “stand” is key since it represents action. Thus, rather than asking about your value system or what you believe in, what I really want to know is what are the […]
Time Flies…
Monday Morning Musings Volume XXIV, Number 27 (Issue 1188 ) July 6, 2026 Time Flies… .. and life goes by fast. Super-fast! So, take care not to miss the good parts by dwelling on the things that do not go your way. Instead, learn from your missteps and the things that go wrong. Then turn the […]
Aware
Monday Morning Musings Volume XXIV, Number 26 (Issue 1187 ) June 29, 2026 Aware How aware of your surroundings are you? Have you noticed the cobweb in the upper righthand corner of your staircase? What about the books piled high on the nightstand? Or the slow drip of the kitchen faucet? If and when they do […]
Exceptional – Part II
Monday Morning Musings Volume XXIV, Number 25 (Issue 1186 ) June 22, 2026 Exceptional – Part II One of my favorite pieces of verse is found in Jacula Prudentum [Arrows of the Wise] written in 1640 by George Herbert. That text reads as follows: For the want of a nail the shoe was lost. For the […]
Exceptional – Part I
Monday Morning Musings Volume XXIV, Number 24 (Issue 1185 ) June 15, 2026 Exceptional – Part I I recently spoke to a group of young leaders who are taking part in the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at SMU. As I often do when addressing a group of individuals from a service industry, I asked for […]
Generalists vs. Specialists
Monday Morning Musings Volume XXIV, Number 23 (Issue 1174) June 8, 2026 Generalists vs. Specialists Years ago, we had two dogs that had the unfortunate habit of ingesting things they should not – things like socks, gravel, wash cloths, etc. There was nothing inherently fatal in their contraband of choice other than they could not digest […]