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Have you ever found yourself keeping busy with something insignificant because you were procrastinating on a big project or afraid to tackle something difficult?  How often do we confuse activity with accomplishment?  Sometimes we just need a win, so we get busy with something that can be completed.  But, without clarity of purpose, we can find ourselves having spent our days without achieving anything at all.  Purpose is important because it gives us a goal and singular vision. At ADMO, our purpose is to produce quality parts and develop and maintain strong relationships with our customers, vendors, and each other.  Mr. Krieps , The President of the company gave us a litmus test this week that can be applied in our decision making.  When trying to decide a course of action, ask the question, "What is in the best interest of ADMO?". This should point us to that purpose and give us clarity as we proceed.  Hopefully, we begin to understand that eac...

In many organizations, leaders can cause a bottleneck by trying to have all information and decisions flow through them.  An organization that is playing chess is made up of leaders who grow their leadership team.  By empowering our leaders, we can share the load and accomplish bigger dreams than we could ever approach on our own. This week, we learned some interesting facts: - To create "Snow White", Walt Disney managed more than 700 artists responsible for more than 2 million drawings - NASA employed more than 400,000 people in order to put a man on the moon - More than 1 million people helped build the Great Wall of China Could you imagine a dream so big that you would need 1 million people to accomplish it?  How exciting would that be? What if we were to dream big and ignore restrictions and limitations? What do High Performance Organizations do?  How do they "Shoot for the Moon"? According to Randy Gravitt of InteGREAT , they: 01. Define ...

Do you remember playing checkers as a child?  Checkers is a fast paced, highly reactive game where the pieces pretty much have the same purpose and usage. What about chess?  It's a little bit different, isn't it? The board has the same layout as the game of checkers, but the pieces have different shapes, sizes, and abilities.  There's much more strategy involved in the game of chess.  It's important to think ahead, see the whole board, and move strategically in order to win. This book, by Mark Miller , takes the reader on a journey through changing a culture in a business from reacting, like playing checkers, to behaving more strategically, like playing chess.  Here's a quick peek at what they mean: This week, at ADMO, we started to look at the first move, "Bet on Leadership".  By working through the Chess Not Checkers Field Guide in conjunction with the Videos taught by Randy Gravitt , we are embarking on a culture-changing adventure....

When you think of the word, "Leader", what comes to mind? Maybe your list looks something like this: Person of Authority Person of Position Well-Educated Appointed Gives Direction Boss Higher in the Organizational Hierarchy Higher in the payscale Too often, we think of "Leaders" or "Leadership" within this context and frame.  We assume that all leaders are given their authority and we must have a "position of leadership" in order to lead. I'd like to challenge you to re-frame this in your own mind.  Consider this quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., (a leader in the Civil Rights Movement and in our Country in the 1960's) “Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s “Theory of Relativity” t...