Unfortunately common sense just isn't all that common anymore.
This website is an attempt to provide a daily dose of common sense; a source of inspiration for all of us willing and ready to respond as leaders.

Welcome to Your Daily Dose
We all have this innate sense that something is wrong today; that something is sorely needed. If you’re like me, you’re tired of all of the hypocrisy, bureaucracy, chaos, & confusion everywhere around us.
From our personal lives, our families, our schools, our workplace, our government; it all seems out of control.
The good news is that we live in the greatest place on the planet; with the greatest opportunity and the greatest amount of freedom God has bestowed upon man.
All the challenges around us certainly demand solutions; but those solutions need to come from you and me. It needs to be birthed out of grass-roots, common-sense leadership.
It’s time we stop looking at others to secure our blessings of liberty. Instead let’s start looking at ourselves.
This website is an attempt to provide a daily dose of common sense; a source of inspiration for all of us willing and ready to respond as leaders.
Thanks for visiting & please check back often.
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Comfortable With Chaos
As a father of four daughters (ages 15, 13, 9, & 7), I feel I’m qualified to speak with authority on the concept of living and dealing with chaos. As if having children isn’t challenging enough, we are also the owners of one extremely large German Shepherd, a loving & needy Boxer, two mini Dachshunds, [...]

Know Your Place (Remember D-Day)
Knowing your place as a leader has little, if anything, to do with where you reside in an organizational chart. Instead it has everything to do with fully understanding what you can affect in your current situation as a leader; and consequently putting all of your energy and focus on where you can be the [...]

Give Appreciation
When I look back and replay the tape on some of my leadership failures, the failures often stemmed from me taking my eye off of the simple and obvious. The times I have failed as a leader were those times I was focused on myself. As leaders we have to realize the basic essential hunger [...]

Accountability Vs. Responsibility
Accountability & Responsibility. People often use these terms interchangeably; often believing that they mean the same thing. If you are interested in dipping your foot into the leadership pool, you must understand that there is a subtle but very powerful difference between accountability and responsibility. As a leader you must understand that you can delegate [...]

Hack the Clock
Panic is bad. It’s inevitable that at some point in your life you will face a situation that will require you to remain calm under pressure. Your child is choking, a customer is irate and irrational, a team member is not pulling his weight, you come upon a car accident, you fly your aircraft through [...]
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