Musings at Altitude

We’re in the 4th quarter of our business fiscal year now, and we’re in that final push to try and hit our numbers while finalizing our annual operating plans and budgets for this next business year.  For many, this is the dog days of summer…for me, it may be the most exciting and definitely the most stimulating […]

“Change (5)” was my 100th posting on this blog, which only started out as an experiment and then grew into a way for me to capture my thoughts nearly real time and share those thoughts if and when others wanted to read them!  I’m just a little bit stunned by how quickly I got to […]

Now that my wife and I are done with all the yard work, I can’t help but think about how the work we did today mirrors a change process – in a grossly comparative way!  We started the process with three goals in mind – (1) mow; (2) weed; and (3) prune.  I grabbed the […]

I’m trying to figure out if my wife is telling me something.  Here’s the book she gave me yesterday: I must admit, I do like things to occur in certain ways.  I do get just a little bit cranky when something I want to do gets pushed aside for something someone else wants to do.  I […]

When you travel as much as many of us do, Starbucks can be a very relaxing stop on a journey and a very important place to do business at a destination.  I’ve joked many times how I should plot on a map the number of Starbucks I visit, because that’s what I look for, even […]

As I’ve been tracking my contacts (see “Staying Connected”, 6/21), I’ve been thinking about those that mentored me in past years, those that are mentoring me today, and those that I may be mentoring today.  As I’ve aged and gained experience in business, much like a son appreciates a father much later in life, I’ve […]

What a hot topic of conversation, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone that two things keep coming up as the biggest irritants regarding change: (1) poor communications (2) lack of a specific timetable For communications, most organizations go into stealth mode in advance of any formal change announcement.  Most of the team members of an organization […]

At dinner this evening, I felt the need to do the fatherly thing and encourage my 14 year old to follow in my footsteps and go to the Air Force Academy.   My oldest went on to study nursing and my middle son is studying English.  My son would like to be in the military, but […]

Me and my 3 girls went on a road trip today – about 300 miles to where I needed to visit one of our job sites and they needed something to do.  So we packed into my SUV (did I mention my oldest brought her female dog along too?) and headed North out of Colorado […]

I have three reservoirs that need to be constantly filled – physical, emotional, and spiritual.  The physical reservoir is the one that gets the most neglect right now.  I don’t take the necessary time to get my exercise, although my travels do allow me to walk a significant enough distance to at least provide me […]