Tag: Shared Leadership
Below is Whisper #17 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. One morning in London, while doing research for my second book, I shared breakfast with a Colombian-born advertising executive, Jose…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #16 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. As a young manager I often listened to evaluate the perspectives of others. But after living for a few years…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #15 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. I once had a dream in which an angel offered to take me back in time fifteen years and start…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #14 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Restraint is the opposite of overreaching. It’s about having the most power but not using it. Restraint is the essential…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #5 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. One of my dearest friends from Pine Ridge is Catherine Grey Day. She is a Dakota elder and a survivor…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #4 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. These words by philosopher Joseph Campbell reveal his understanding of the world’s mythologies and sacred stories as manifestations of the…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #1 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Crazy Horse was born in 1842 near the Black Hills. In the decades that marked his life steamboats would conquer…
READ ARTICLEThe following is the introduction to my third book, 48WHISPERS From Pine Ridge and the Northern Plains. Please enjoy. As a teenager our family took a vacation to the Grand Tetons. I was so enamored with the majestic grandeur of the West that I subsequently returned one college summer to work in Yellowstone National Park. I happily…
READ ARTICLEIn this article, Kevin Hancock writes about how Hancock Lumber became a Best Places to Work by comparing it to how a baby learns to walk. By learning without instruction, people will engage with their natural curiosity and begin to excel at their projects. Click here to read the article.
READ ARTICLEIn October, Kevin Hancock took the stage at the LBM Strategies Conference as their keynote speaker, which had a record turnout. A captivated audience listened to him share how a few key ideas have helped transform Hancock Lumber’s culture over the last decade and lead to transformative results. Attendees came away with numerous insights and…
READ ARTICLE“Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned.” —Romans 5:12 I’ve found a new favorite book. It’s titled Humankind: A Hopeful History, by Rutger Bregman. You may have to search for it, because it threatens too many conventional…
READ ARTICLE“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.” —Lucille Ball In January of 1988 I drove from Bowdoin College to Bridgton Academy to interview for a teaching and coaching job. Upon arrival I found myself sitting on the less powerful side of a large oak desk. Bob Walker, the headmaster, sat opposite me….
READ ARTICLEIn this podcast, Kevin Hancock speaks with the PR Maven podcast host Nancy Marshall about leadership. Kevin shares how his leadership style has changed over the last decade and what elements helped show him the path to dispersed power and leadership. They talk about the importance of change and embracing the need to adapt to…
READ ARTICLEIn this podcast, Kevin Hancock speaks with Strength For Your Purpose Podcast host Dr. Phil Finemore about shared leadership and dispersed power. They discuss Kevin’s journey and how he came to his philosophy that power should be dispersed. Kevin shares the outcomes for the company and the employees who work for Hancock Lumber. Finally, they…
READ ARTICLEIn this podcast, Kevin Hancock speaks to Safe Space host Franco Lombardo about successfully running a business without speaking. They discuss Kevin’s journey, from losing his voice to finding it again and the lessons he learned along the way. Kevin talks about the successes gained from listening, empowering voices, and sharing leadership throughout the organization….
READ ARTICLE“If you want to be a champion you’ve got to feel like one, you’ve got to look like one, you’ve got to act like one.” —Red Auerbach John Kohtala was the best jump shooter I ever met. If he could get his right elbow above your left defensive hand, he was going to shoot, and it…
READ ARTICLEBelow are 12 articles and podcasts that describe the outcome and impact of shared leadership in the workplace. Take a look at the excerpts below and click through to learn more. Thank you for joining our mission of shared leadership, dispersed power, and respect for all voices! Work & Life with Stew Friedman In this…
READ ARTICLEIn this article featured in the March 2022 NRLA Lumber Co-Operator, Kevin Hancock writes about digital equality in the workplace. Kevin explores the two groups of employees that the digital age has produced in lumberyards: the group that uses laptops and computers regularly and those that do not. He continues to write about how Hancock…
READ ARTICLEIn this keynote interview, Kevin Hancock speaks with Shannon Zur of the Vogel Consulting Group. The theme of the Transitions Spring 2022 conference was “Strong Family, Strong Business.”
READ ARTICLEIn this podcast, Kevin Hancock speaks with Path11 Podcast host April Hannah about his newest book 48 Whispers and his journeys to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. They discuss the loss of Kevin’s voice and how it led him on a quest to find his center, regain his voice, and help strengthen the…
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