"A Relocation Minute" with Bruce Waller
I absolutely loved it when award winning actor Tom Hanks stepped up to accept his “Oscar Award” and shared the importance of bringing new ideas with us to work every day. It’s what adds value to our workplace, our community, and our everyday. The more value we add, the more we will be valued. So, …
I have received some great advice from many leaders over the course of my career, but the advice I received at the beginning of 2002 was a game changer and remember it like it was yesterday. One morning sitting in my office as the new operations manager, I called my brother to tell him about …
Preparation is the key to success. My kids heard me share this many times at the dinner table growing up. I think I heard this statement at a leadership conference early in my career and it just stuck. I remember how it made me feel… when I was prepared and when I wasn’t. Preparation is a skill that …
Last week, I shared my 3 year old grandson’s picture of a turkey that he painted with a group of leaders in Dallas. The picture included the message around gratitude, so I decided to ask the attendees to fill in the blank… So today, I ask “what’s in your blank” on this special week of …
About 5 months ago when the coronavirus showed up, and many of us were home sheltered, I decided to start interviewing leaders in the workplace and in our communities. I have been doing this for years, but this time decided to record the conversations for others that might be looking for a “lift” in their …
I was recently helping a customer with her moving questions following our virtual moving survey process when she mentioned that she wanted to use our company to assist her with her move. She had received a couple of other estimates earlier and our estimate was a little higher, but the other companies didn’t look at …
I can hear her voice just like it was yesterday. “Reset on lane seven, or lane 8 or whatever lane she was bowling on. Her name was Mabel Carter and she bowled the afternoon senior league. She wasn’t 5′ tall and had blond hair with wire frame glasses. Every time she would throw her 8 …
Tomorrowland is a Belgian electronic dance music festival held in Boom, Belgium. Tomorrowland was first held in 2005 and now stretches over two weekends… and usually sells out in minutes. As I think about tomorrow, I think about about our new world of work… Tomorrow is today and it’s about a new world of leading …
Tomorrowland… The future of work and relocating talent is here!Read More »
As I think about the work place we have all accepted over the last few weeks, I think about how most of us had access to this world of work long before the pandemic, but just didn’t embrace it because of a variety of reasons including its not how we do things in our company. …
Inspiration or Desperation? or maybe just a PUSH…Read More »
Over the last week, I’ve seen some really cool things around people creating powerful moments of connection. Yes, we’ve had to cancel most of our in-person meetings and social networking events due to social distancing to help “flatten the curve” of the Corona-virus. However, there are a lot of positives happening and people are getting …