Category: Dear Son

Senior Year Day 4, work

iPhone notes app list
Son, you summarized our talks at Lake McDonald Lodge and from the Fish Lake and Snyder Lake trails.

Learn from those who embody what they teach.

dad

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Senior Year Day 3, work

screen shot of INC article
Screen shot from a random LinkedIn post. Theory is that money is not what drives employee loyalty.

You will have leaders throughout your life.

Parents, teachers, healthcare, peers, internships, trips, employment, community, etc.

There’s a range of how we lead and how we feel we are being led:

  1. Poor
  2. Just ok
  3. Good
  4. Very good
  5. Excellent

Learn from all categories.

Learn what is excellent and why.

Learn what is not excellent and why.

Mold yourself into a great personal vibrancy leader.

The first leadership victory is with self.

Have fun.

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Senior Year Day 2, work

LinkedIn screenshot of Van France story
Disney is Fanatical about it’s purpose. Make people so happy so they return often and tell others. Photo: LinkedIn screenshot of some Disney curator’s post.

Simplicity is operational genius.

Bob Iger led with three priorities:

  1. Creativity
  2. Technology
  3. Globalization

Deconstruct Bob’s priorities…

  1. Creativity is Disney’s DNA
  2. Technology is the way for everything
  3. Sell more stuff, to more people, more often

Let’s deconstruct one more level down:

  1. Creativity is the environment
  2. Tech is the tool
  3. Profit is the reward/goal

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Senior Year Day 1, work

empty grocery store shelves
Didn’t see a career change coming from a single 1999 phone call. No one saw Covid-19, a 2020 microbe, disrupting the entire world’s normalcy.

Senior Year Day 1, work…

Remember, i was 40 before a serendipitous phone call led me to what i was born to do.

dad

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Spring Grove careers

two middle age men at Paper Mill
2014: me and Mike Hoover, both from SGHS class of ’77. One left Spring Grove at first opportunity and one stayed.

Had i made Spring Grove our permanent home, probably would have worked in a factory or worked for a landscape business. The thought or concept of management never crossed my mind.

All i was certain of, after tasting college life, was that i needed to get out of Spring Grove. It felt small-minded, way too traditional, and short on opportunity.

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