by Art Dykstra | Jan 5, 2023 | Art Dykstra, Blog, Curious Leader, Leadership
LEARN A LITTLE: Twenty-Three Leadership Thoughts to Help You Start the New Year – 2023 I was talking with a colleague recently who teaches Executive Leadership at a nearby college. We were exchanging ideas and insights that flow from the cardinal idea that...
by Art Dykstra | Dec 1, 2022 | Art Dykstra, Blog, Curious Leader, Leadership
LEARN A LITTLE: Getting Up Early in the Morning There’s research evidence that if you begin a talk or presentation with a question and hold the answer to the end, your audience will be more attentive because you have primed their curiosity pump. I thought I would try...
by Art Dykstra | Nov 1, 2022 | Art Dykstra, Blog, Curious Leader, Leadership
LEARN A LITTLE: An “I-Watering” Insight from Trying to Grow Onions You will have to stay with me through a bit of personal gardening history, but when you get to the end, I believe the insight I’ll share will be worth it. My wife and I both enjoy gardening, and we...
by Art Dykstra | Oct 3, 2022 | Art Dykstra, Blog, Curious Leader, Leadership
LEARN A LITTLE: Using Good Judgment I was shopping in a department store recently when I noticed a sign posted next to the employee lounge that read, “Use your good judgment in all situations. There are no additional rules.” Today there is no shortage of...
by Art Dykstra | Sep 1, 2022 | Art Dykstra, Blog, Curious Leader, Leadership
LEARN A LITTLE: How Gratitude Can Help Us Handle Stress Recently, my wife and I were returning to our home in Illinois after attending a conference in Louisiana. While on a busy stretch of Interstate 55 in Missouri, a tire on our vehicle blew out–and that was...
by Art Dykstra | Aug 1, 2022 | Art Dykstra, Blog, Curious Leader, Leadership
LEARN A LITTLE: As a Leader, What Is Your First Resort? Lots of people have talked and written about the last resort, whether it be in sports, politics, medicine, business or even marriage. It’s what we do when everything else that we have tried has failed. Let me...
