December 20, 2018 | Posted by: Rick Torseth | No Comments
Peggy McIntosh lives under my bed. She has since September. She will not leave me alone thank god. I participated in a webinar this week. It was hosted by three leaders of an organization that support leadership development. They have a book coming out in the new year and the purpose of the webinar was … [READ MORE]
December 12, 2018 | Posted by: Rick Torseth | Comments: 5
“ You buried the lede again.” I was in Sister Benadicta’s sixth grade class and I had asked my father to read my essay on the Declaration of Independence. A mistake I would repeat for most of my school life. With a red pencil, he went to work. By the time he finished his edits, … [READ MORE]
October 20, 2018 | Posted by: Rick Torseth | No Comments
A scene from the movie 3 Kings starring George Clooney: “You’re scared, right?” “Maybe.” “The way it works is, you do the thing you’re scared s***less of, and you get the courage AFTER you do it, not before you do it.” “That’s a dumbass way to work. It should be the other way around.” “I know. That’s the … [READ MORE]
September 19, 2018 | Posted by: Rick Torseth | No Comments
Sonny Rollins is probably the greatest tenor saxophone player in all of jazz. His journey from a novice eight-year-old player to today owes as much to effort as to talent. When it comes to building leadership capacity, his life illustrates how technique trumps scheme. But what is technique and what is scheme? The Oxford dictionary defines them this way: Scheme: A large-scalesystematic plan or arrangement for attaining some particular … [READ MORE]