Video clip of Jim Collins on demotivating the people in your organization

Found this clip interesting and wanted to share it. Can you apply this to your sphere of influence within your organization?

I think I need maternity pants

You always hear that men gain weight along with their pregnant wife and it is attributed to "sympathy". I am here to tell you that I am fairly certain sympathy as little to do with the amount of calories I have been devouring these days. If there is any sort of pathos involved, I would say it is either "empathy" or "apathy."Hmmm...let's go with empathy! Yes, that's it! I am looking to "empathize" with my wife's pregnant condition, so I want to see exactly what if feels like to have MY belly to protrude over my belt. I mean why should she get to have all of the fun eating these delicious treats, right? It is not my fault that there is a tasty dessert available every evening...let's face it, it is really more like apathy, right??? So, with that I need to ask, "who ate the last piece of chocolate cake?"

Guess Who's Back?

So, I went to an inbound marketing workshop this past Wednesday, which was focused on blogging and it was highly motivating. The question posed was "why aren't you blogging?"  http://www.schneiderb.com/why-arent-you-blogging-guest-post-here/  I thought about it and remembered that I started a blog account, but who was it with again? www.wordpress.com or was it www.blogger.com ? It seemed like just yesterday that I last blogged. Wait. What? It was 2009? Where did the time go? I guess I could blame my lack of blogging on having a toddler and spending time with her and my wife. Or on the fact that I am working on my Masters in Educational Leadership at The University of South Florida. Or on how busy I am at my job at The Out-of-Door Academy,  but probably the best answer is I have not been writing posts in my blog because of all the time I spend most of my free time watching Sports Center...I figured now was a good time to start blogging again, with my daughter Carly turning three this month and Baby Chapman #2 on the way, which will give us a boy and a girl.  Should have plenty of free time, right? So, here I go...but first, where did Brooke put the remote control again???

First Observation - brand new Fathers

OK, so I had a random thought the other day that I would like to start a blog. I mean, it seems everyone is doing it, so why shouldn't I? (and no this does not apply if someone wants me to jump off a roof, Mom in case you are reading this)...I have things I would like to say, and who better to say them to then everyone in cyberspace! Do I really care if anyone reads this? Not really. It is just for me to ramble on about some of the random things I have observed over the course of time. You know, "Things that make you say, hmmm"...(OK, I have already dated myself.)

So, let me start by talking about a recent observation as a new father of a now 12-week old. Before she was born, my wonderful wife signed us up for every single pre-birth class available. And I noticed in my 30+ hours of these classes two things which I will share with the men who have not yet experienced this for themselves: 1. Every man has a glazed over look on their face during these classes, even though we are trying our best to concentrate because we feel we have to soak up everything we hear so we can be the best dad possible. And when their wife is not looking, all in the classroom are secretly wishing we were home watching ESPN. 2. We never use or remember anything from these classes.

So, new dads. Sorry to tell you, but you still have to go, just know you are "investing" 30+ hours of your life to keep "mama" happy!

That is all for now...