by Art Dykstra | Apr 1, 2025 | Blog
LEARN A LITTLE: Some Thoughts About Entropy Among the work activities I enjoy are the conversations with younger executives regarding their efforts to improve the functionality of their organization. As you might expect, this is typically a greater challenge within...
by Art Dykstra | Mar 1, 2025 | Art Dykstra, Blog, Curious Leader, Leadership
LEARN A LITTLE: The Stories We Tell Ourselves It’s a fact that we all tell stories to ourselves-all day. It’s how we interpret the things going on around us or happening to us. In fact, our stories shape our perspective of the world. In this month’s blog I’d like to...
by Art Dykstra | Feb 1, 2025 | Art Dykstra, Blog, Curious Leader, Leadership
LEARN A LITTLE: Just Asking For a Friend Like a lot of people, I’ve turned away from TV as a source for news and, for that matter, also newspapers, with the exception of the Farmers Weekly Review of Will County, Illinois. These days, it seems like you don’t know what...
by Art Dykstra | Jan 1, 2025 | Art Dykstra, Blog, Curious Leader, Leadership
LEARN A LITTLE: What Happens Next? Since it’s the beginning of a new year and our future is in front of us, I thought it would be helpful to truly have something important to think about. I think it really starts when we are about two years old and we think everything...
by Art Dykstra | Dec 7, 2024 | Art Dykstra, Blog, Curious Leader, Leadership
LEARN A LITTLE: When Organizations Get Stale I met with two colleagues for lunch recently, and they were discussing the general topic of “how are things going” when I arrived. The response of one of the individuals stayed with me and serves as the basis of these...
by Art Dykstra | Nov 1, 2024 | Art Dykstra, Blog, Curious Leader, Leadership
LEARN A LITTLE: How to Get Promoted Recently, I got a call from an individual, who has been working for a rather large company with hundreds of employees and many layers of management for over 10 years. The young man likes his company and is currently a first-level...
