Long Run Distance: 18 People who are and strive to be leaders tend to take ownership of the situation, the actions, and the results that are derived from effort. We will take the blame, because we also want to take the credit. Rarely do you see a strong leader citing the environment as the problem, and if they do, you feel like they are playing the blame game. Buck up and own it you want to say! But running in this heat has led me to question if sometimes we do as leaders need to pay more attention to our environment.
Week 7 Mileage: 35 miles Long Run Distance: 16 Our training crew took part in the Hartselle Half Marathon to cover our 13-mile long run last week. It’s a quaint race through back roads of farmland. With a field of only 260 runners, cooler temps (finally!), and a volunteer crew that epitomizes southern hospitality, it was a great way to kick off a weekend. I went into a race, much to my husband’s aggravation (he likes a game plan even more than I do), without a particular time goal or strategy. I just wanted to enjoy the run and see where it took me based
Week 5 Week 5 Mileage: 32 Long Run Distance: 14 When you are training for a marathon, you spend a lot of time with the people you are training with. Thirty-two miles for us this week equaled about three to three and half hours together on the road. You would think we would run (no pun intended) out of things to talk about. But we don’t. Whether it is talking about the weather (when on earth is this heat going to let up??), talking about sports (college football kicked off last week in case you missed it), politics and
Is there such thing as too big in business? Can a company become too big and therefore too bureaucratic, thus limiting its ability to innovative entirely? To address this question, the easy answer is to just point you to reading The Innovator’s Dilemma. It answers this question thoroughly. But for the sake of this blog post, I’ll tell you, it depends. The book will tell you it depends on whether or not what you are creating is a disruptive technology or a sustaining technology. The best way I can describe the difference in the two is that sustaining technologies improve
Innovation is a buzzword in business now. In a fast-paced world where change and adapting is necessary in order to survive in business, innovation seems to be what all people want to point to that keeps companies alive. “Innovate or die” we hear. But is it worth all the hype? Despite the fact that I often hate cliché words or phrases (don’t ask me about what I think about the word “synergy”, for example), I’m on the innovation bandwagon. I believe in today’s business world it truly is what separates the winners from the losers. And you can see why