Show me the MONEY!!!!!!!

We live in a world than is all about the here and now, but every once in a while I find myself taking a little trip down memory lane and more times than not it's enjoyable.

My most recent "time traveling" adventure happened a few hours ago when I happened to come home to find my Mom watching "Jerry Maguire," a great flick from 1996. Now it's been awhile since I've sat down and watched the exploits of Tom, Cuba, and Rene so I decided to get reacquainted with my old friends.

After settling into my custom made Adirondack chair, popping open and Diet DP, and putting the phone on vibrate I started watching. To my surprise I forgot how much I enjoyed this movie. I might go out on a limb and say everything you need to know about life you can learn from "Jerry Maguire."

-How do you get out of a fight with you're significant other...you say, "You complete me."

-What do you say during contract negotiations...you say, "Show me the money."

-When you're stuck in an awkward conversation and have know idea what to say...you say "Do you know the human head weighs eight pounds?"

Boom, case closed.

Chris "Ambassador of Kwan" D.

Lead where you are

'Ello 'ello my beautiful Candorteers. Wanted to hop on to assure all my loyal fans that news reports are not correct, I am alive, I didn't drink myself into an alcohol induced coma over my Birthday weekend =)

I also wanted to recap how the Leadership Summit went this past Thursday and Friday. Overall I had an enjoyable experience listening to people that were as different as you and I, but came together under the common bond of Leadership. The speakers not only talk the talk, they walk the walk.

I found more than a few valuable pieces of info while I was there and I hope after you're done reading, you will leave with you're own nugget or two.

Please to enjoy.

First up was a man by the name of Bill Hybels, besides being a well renowned author he is also the founding pastor of the Willow Creek Community Church.

Pastor Hybels talked about navigating through the Rouge Waves that life sometimes brings. When these Waves threaten to throw your boat of course what do you do to get back on course?? What is your replenishment strategy?? A leader has the innate ability to give of him/herself, but there is only so much in the bucket. We need to have a plan to fill up the bucket once it starts getting low. Ask yourself what fills your bucket, is it vegging out in front of the TV, is it taking a long walk, it can be anything.

Make sure to have a Replenishment Strategy.

Next up was visiting professor from the London Business school, Gary Hamel. Prof. Hamel had a wealth of knowledge to pass along that had to deal with management, success, and overcoming denial.

Much like everything else in life, denial has a pattern, and if we are able to recognize this pattern we can break past denial and get on with correcting the problem.

Denial Pattern has four steps; 1) Dismiss- we tell ourselves nothing is wrong, 2) Rationalize- this is where we make excuses, 3) Mitigate- this is where we realize there is a problem, 4) Confront- well this is self explanatory =)

Harvey Carey wrapped up day one with an impassioned speech about breaking the huddle and play the game. Carey explained that you can have all the tools and plans of attack in the world but if you don't get out there and start using them, what's the use?

Some people suffer from Paralysis of Analysis. Which means we are so busy thinking everything through we fail to get off out butts and go do something, and Pastor Carey knows a little something about getting out there and acting. He leads a congregation in the poorest zip code, in the poorest city, in the state in the country, but does that stop them from breaking the huddle and playing the game?? No way, if you want to learn more about how Harvey Carey breaks the huddle and plays click here http://www.harveycarey.org/

There were other orators that had interesting things to stay and I will be incorporating what I learned from them in later Blogs, but I wanted to highlight these three people to get you thinking.

Remember to replenish your bucket, break the denial pattern, and get out there and PLAY THE GAME!