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Ed Voelsing
- May 13, 2019
- 1 min
Monday Motivation
The circus* can come to town unexpectedly. Some days are spent being the ring leader. Some days you are just one of the clowns. Some days you get stuck cleaning up after the elephants. Good leaders find the balance in all three. * The circus can either be a carefully choreographed show, or sometimes it's just the chaos that the unexpected can bring. #MondayMotivation #Clowns #Leadership
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Ed Voelsing
- Nov 12, 2018
- 1 min
Monday Motivation
In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Armistice in World War I, we wanted to share this quote by Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Pershing had a storied career, and is a great study in leadership. His life was not without personal tragedy and setbacks and has lessons for any leader. An award-winning documentary, Black Jack Pershing: Love and War is available on streaming services like Netflix. The Rivet Group wants
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Ed Voelsing
- May 3, 2018
- 2 min
The Amazon Effect
One of the best things I’ve read recently is Jeff Bezos' most recent letter to shareholders of his company, Amazon. Jeff Bezos is known for being a pioneer and his letter shows why. It’s unlike any I’ve read before and is worth the time it takes to read it. It's a free lesson from a master who has built an empire and has worlds yet to conquer. If you are not into investing, publicly-traded companies’ annual reports are prefaced by a letter to shareholders written (or ghost
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Ed Voelsing
- Feb 2, 2018
- 4 min
Keeping the Groundhog Away - 10 Ways to Keep Your Team Engaged
If you have not seen the classic Bill Murray movie, Groundhog Day, you should. Bill Murray plays an obnoxious weatherman named Phil Connors who is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to cover the annual rite of Groundhog Day. He gets trapped in a time loop and keeps waking up to relive the same February 2nd while retaining all his memories from his previous run through the day. Phil then goes on a strange hero’s journey to find the worst, then finally the best, version of
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Ed Voelsing
- Nov 9, 2017
- 3 min
Stone Soup for Veterans Day
As Veterans Day nears, I have been reflecting on the story of Stone Soup. If you are not familiar, Stone Soup is an old folktale about two soldiers returning from war that stop for the night in a small village. The village has fallen on hard times, ostensibly by the armies that have passed through, “foraging” as they went. At the sight of the soldiers, the villagers hide behind their doors and shutter their windows. As the weary soldiers begin setting up their camp for th
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Ed Voelsing
- Oct 19, 2017
- 2 min
3 Leadership Fails For Employees Not Taking Vacation
An estimated 658 Million Days of Paid Time Off will go unused. The benefits to both employees and businesses for time off are well-documented. So why do so many employees leave so much behind? There are many reasons, and the root cause of most of the reasons are a failure of leadership. Here are the big three: Poor planning. A quality leader needs to be good at planning - and this includes making sure that your employees have the opportunity to take time off. Paid time off
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Ed Voelsing
- Oct 19, 2017
- 2 min
Holding it all together
Every company has people that hold everything together - and get stuff done. When I was an young Ensign in the Navy, their payroll system had a close to 100% failure rate - every time something changed - they would screw it up for months. I had just moved to Newport to go to school and was living out in town. My rent was high, even in the off season, even with a roommate. My pay was screwed up for weeks - I soon depleted my savings and had the humiliating task of asking my
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