Author: Seth

  • "Busy" is a safe place to hide…

    "Busy" is a safe place to hide…

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    You run into a friend that you haven’t seen in awhile in the checkout lane. You chat about the weather, what you have been doing and then before you know it, out comes the B word. Before you know it, 10 min is gone. You talked about work, family and the next season of school…

  • The Infinite Game

    If you wake up every day with a finite outcome as your only goal, I think it’s fair to say that your life will be not only predictable but also decidedly difficult. Why is will it be difficult? It will be difficult because most things in life just don’t work that way. Most things in…

  • We are all looking for something

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    Compliance is good for productivity but that might not be what most people are looking for when it comes to uncovering a deeper meaning in life or in a workplace. What most people are longing for is connection and belonging. When you ask people to comply, it’s all about obligation. And obligating people to perform has…

  • The one-hit-wonder

    The one-hit-wonder

    The one-hit wonder is an inevitable byproduct of pop charts. The term is most prevalent in the music industry but can apply to other things or people. Have you heard Chumbawamba? Or maybe I should ask if you have heard of Tubthumping because that was their one-hit-wonder? Creating one-hit wonders probably keeps some people up…

  • Choosing how to lead

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    One way to lead people is to obligate them to follow. It’s not hard to do. Just give someone a job description and a pay check and you have obligated someone to that said responsibility. A better way to lead people is to tell them a good story and invite them to join a team…

  • Looking vs. seeing

    Looking vs. seeing

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    There is looking and they’re seeing. And I think there is an important difference that needs to be understood. To look at something is to focus on it, observe it for what it is, where it is. But to see something or more importantly, someone is to know them, to begin to stand in their…

  • Get to know people

    Get to know people

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    I don’t think people are to be studied or observed from a distance. People have a deep-rooted desire to be known and to know others. The trouble with this is that to be know requires us to let down our guard and be honest about who we are and where we have come from. The beautiful…

  • Knowledgeable is not the goal

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    People like being in the know. People like it so much that they use knowing more of something or knowing something before others as power. They think it gives them some kind of credibility but it’s not true. Knowledge is important and we should never stop learning. But have you ever said “that person is…

  • A Powerful Force

    A Powerful Force

    The more empathy I have, the less annoying other people are.

  • Seeing beyond yourself

    Seeing beyond yourself

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    Have you ever been walking somewhere familiar and see something you’ve never seen before? Maybe you had walked that same street or path 100 times and always took care to look where you were going but never saw anything interesting before. But on the right days and in the right light and at just the…

  • Problem Solving vs. Team Building

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    If you have a problem, it will stay a problem unless it’s solved. In order to solve the problem you first must understand the issues and make sense of it so you can then try solving it. But no one problem is like another and no one solution works for everything. All that to say,…

  • Too popular

    Too popular

    There is “popular” and then there is “too popular”. Popular is not bad. There are lots of really good things that are popular. Like chocolate and vanilla ice cream. They are the most popular ice cream flavors and that’s good. I don’t think anyone would argue that they are too popular. So what is too…

  • Wisdom​e from Costco’s boys pants section

    Wisdom​e from Costco’s boys pants section

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    As I was browsing the boys pants section of Costco an older man stopped me to ask how many kids I had. At that moment I had 3 of our boys with me and that seemed to have caught his attention. I proceeded to tell him that I have 4 sons and a daughter. He…

  • Tell them what they are worth

    Tell them what they are worth

    People love to tell each other what they want, and so do mediocre marketers. And a lot of them also spend excessive amounts of time and money trying to convince you of what you want as well. Case in point, the Slap Chopper. Average marketers love to find ways of convincing people they want that…

  • Snowboard Attendants​​

    Snowboard Attendants​​

    It’s time to step it up with SA (Snowboard Attendants) this season. The project my friend Michiyo Hashimoto and I started talking about two seasons ago is slowly starting to take shape. I am a leadership development trainer. I believe people are sacred and worth more than anything. Even when we try making a good…

  • スノーボードアテンダント(SA)

    スノーボードアテンダント(SA)

    今年Snowboard Attendants(SA)が次のステップに行くように頑張ります。2シーズン前友人Michiyo Hashimotoと一緒に考えた事が少しずつ形になって来ています。SBN記事はこちら 僕はリーダー育成をしています。人づくりはどんな事よりも尊いと思っています。どんな良いプログラム・方法・組織を作ろうとしても最終的に人に掛かって来ます。人は一番可能性のある財産です。ルール、ポリシー、お金で解決することは表面的なことしかできません。 人は尊い存在であるという価値観を元にして、自分探し、人と人の関係、そして人と社会の関係をスノーボードのヨコノリ感覚や知識が刺激と貢献になる事を狙います。 “Ride well, Live well” 今シーズン乗鞍でもSAクリニックを開催したいと思っています。興味のある方声をおかけください。

  • Practicing leadership

    Practicing leadership

    There is an endless flow of content on the topic of leadership. You could literally spend the rest of your life studying leadership and still never be sure you were doing it right because a lot of people think that there is a right and therefore wrong way to do it. Over the past few…

  • Fight or flight

    There comes a time when you have to make a choice to fight or flight. And to fight doesn’t always mean to be violent. There are plenty of good things worth fighting for. In any organization, there are issues that need to be resolved in order to see the vision through. And I believe the…