Everyone has moments in their life that could be called life changing. Comes with the territory of life. What do you do? How do you come to your decision? For me, I am now at one of those cross-roads that I need to make a decision. My employer has offered to some employee’s early retirement. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘change’
Life Changing Decisions – What to do?
July 7th, 2010 
Steve 
Posted in Observations 
Tags: challenges, change, Decision making, fear, reflections, relationship, thoughts 
2 Comments »Day 9 and 10 – St. Petersburg, Russia
July 2nd, 2010 Steve Public service announcement: here is your very brief general information to get things started. St. Petersburg is situated on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Finland, some 400 miles from Moscow. Considered the most European of all the cities of Russia. City population is around 5 million and is the largest sea port in the [...]
Change and Leadership Strategy
May 25th, 2010 Steve I recently stumbled across an interesting article by William Pasmore in Forbes titled “You Need A Leadership Strategy Now” which really got me thinking, especially his statement regarding change… Leading in an environment that is characterized by constrained resources, an uncertain and unpredictable economic environment and where competition is constantly increasing, is extremely challenging as [...]
Posted in Leadership Tags: change, collaboration, Decision making, Leadership, thoughts No Comments »28 – Wow
April 30th, 2010 Steve Today, someone reminded me that I am under 10 days till I celebrate 28 years working for Intel. This made me stop to ponder what was then and now… I thought I would write about a few items of then and now (with some personal thoughts along the way). In 1982 Intel stock was close [...]
Is This A Sign of the Times?
February 18th, 2010 Steve This past weekend, I attended a L.O.V.E (Lifting Our Voices for Education) Rally at Wesley Bolin Plaza in downtown Phoenix. From some of my other posts, you can easily understand that I have a fond spot in my heart for education. My wife is a 4th grade school teacher at Haley Elementary. I participate as [...]
What’s Next?
February 17th, 2010 Steve After 27 years of managing teams, shifts, departments and such – I am now leading one, myself. I still have focal and other things to close up, but for the most part the day to day coaching, assisting and helping manage people is no more. Not sure why I wanted to write a blog post [...]
Posted in Leadership, Leading Teams Tags: change, coaching, Leadership, Leading Teams, managing, people, relationship, thoughts No Comments »Command & Control vs Collaborative
January 20th, 2010 Steve I have struggled with this topic for quite some time. I have pretty much worked in 3 organizations all my life (2 large ones – US Army and Intel; 1 small – Myron’s Service Center). No one will argue that the military is anything but command and control… Oh, don’t get me wrong there is [...]
Posted in Leadership, Leading Teams, Observations Tags: change, collaboration, Leadership, social computing, social media, thoughts No Comments »Ah ha Moments
October 26th, 2009 Steve The pass couple of weekends, I have been very lucky to spend some precious moments with my10 month old grand daughter. Last weekend, we were at the Phoenix zoo for Zoo Walk for Autism. This weekend, it was pumpkin time at one of the local farms, Schnapf Farms. Each one of these days were filled with [...]
Social Computing Inside the Enterprise
September 10th, 2009 Steve Plenty of stuff has been said about social computing, enterprise 2.0, web 2.0 – pick a name. Much of what you read and listen to is externally focused. The arguements come when you try to apply external tools and capabilities to inside the firewall. I posted a blog – months ago on “Why Managers Fear [...]
Posted in Observations Tags: challenges, change, collaboration, communication, social computing, social media No Comments »Ever Get One Of “Those” Projects
September 1st, 2009 Steve My previous post was some therapy for me. Reflecting on the past week’s activities and how I handled them – is always good from time to time. At least, I enjoy it. Well, this post is just an extension of my therapy, but I need some help. Over the past 2+ years, my team and [...]
