The following is an excerpt form Mark's new book:  The Family Business Teeter Totter.     Have you ever tried hiring a personal trainer? Whether or not you have, ask yourself ...

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Photo by: US Military   New Year’s Resolutions…   Again?   Here we are…AGAIN…another New Year. Did you make any New Year’s Resolutions? Are ...

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Photo by: Mitchell Joyce   “Communication Tips and an Intergenerational Story”   The colors are a changin’…and time is marching on…Amidst a troubled ...

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Hurry Sickness

Sep 21, 2023

Photo by: Stephen Mackenzie    Hurry Sickness Why the RUSH?   Lyn and I just returned from our annual summer break. It was a time of reflection, refreshment, recreation, ...

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 Photo by: Kate Fisher   A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE   I’ve shared some of my recent and not-so-recent accidents, which by the way, have usually happened because of either ...

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Photo by: McCalla Family Fonds    Teeing up CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS for SUCCESS   Both in my work and my personal life, I value RECONCILIATION. Reconciliation, typically, is not ...

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Brinksmanship

Jun 13, 2023

 Photo by Elton Z   Brinksmanship   In Bend, we often get to do some spring skiing. Mt. Bachelor is usually open until Memorial Day weekend. So, recently, I was able to get a ...

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Practice Hospitality!

May 15, 2023

Photo by Derek Clark   PRACTICE HOSPITALITY!   My son will be starting a new job in June. As part of his orientation, he was asked to watch a video. (I’ll share the link below.) ...

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Let It Snow

Mar 20, 2023

Photo by Rob Lee   LET IT SNOW…   I’ve been fortunate this winter…SO, I’m grateful…to be back on skis and to have experienced some incredible ski ...

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SOUNDTRACKS

Feb 22, 2023

Photo courtesy of Jose Pestana   SOUNDTRACKS…   I’ve talked before about the tapes we play in our head. OR, in Brene Brown language,   The story I’m telling ...

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Is Wealth a Curse?

Jan 3, 2023

      Photo courtesy of Flickr   Mark’s New Year’s 2023 “Sermon”    The following question came up over coffee with a client recently, ...

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      Photo by: small curio   Accountability Authority Paradox   A number of clients over the past while have asked to focus on ACCOUNTABILITY. I remember Michael ...

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     Photo by: Prachatai   Is My Handwriting That Bad?   Lyn and I just returned from our annual summer break. Totally unplugged. It was great!   I’ve ...

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     Photo by: Gerald Simmons    What are you afraid of?  We all have fears, right? I mean, let’s be honest…Whether it’s being afraid of snake’s, ...

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      Photo by: Elke Peterson   Is my “Safe Place” a Deception?   Recently, a good friend and I were out mountain biking. Both of us have had pretty ...

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      Photo by Dale M McDonald   A Different Kind of Leadership   Summer is upon us…Time to travel, right? Many of you are planning trips, some even to other ...

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Pushing Pause

Apr 29, 2022

Photo by: Eje Lyam    Pushing Pause   Name one thing that happens at a slower pace than one hundred years ago…I’m hard pressed to make any kind of list of things. Maybe ...

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Ladders or Stairs??

Mar 14, 2022

    Ladder or Stairs??   I’m somewhere in the latter half (I hope…) of my recovery from “The Fall” I wrote about in January’s edition of this ...

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Rebuilding Trust

Feb 24, 2022

Photo by: Ron    Rebuilding Trust when Trust has been Broken   Some of you are familiar with Love Languages. The book’s “cousin” for business is Languages of ...

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Lessons from a Fall

Jan 25, 2022

Photo courtesy of Mark Wickman   Lessons from a Fall…   Back in the Fall I wrote a blog entry entitled, Lessons from Afar. Well, now, not to be cute, but this month’s ...

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