Symbiosis Critical elements to good leadership are confidence and competence. Confidence is easily discerned by those who follow. Employees will more willingly conform to their leaders influence when those leaders present a confident attitude about their business. A leader’s confidence is infectious. With a confident leader and confident staff, theirRead More →
A Retrospective We’ve been in the States for almost two months now and our ‘Year in Vorlarlberg’ adventure seems a distant spot in the rear view mirror. Life moves fast, and the longer you live, it seemingly moves faster. As we were focused on recovery and envisioning our next year’sRead More →
Afterthoughts We made it home a little worse for the wear. Our RV Nomading proof of concept adventure took us from Feldkirch to Frankfurt by car, from there, by air to Pittsburgh and up the highways to Granger Indiana. After recovering the RV from storage, we forayed across the country,Read More →
Still Nomading Canada Sixteen August 2018 – A little before 0700, sitting in this quiet Whitehorse, Yukon RV park, collecting a few thoughts and additions for this “RV Nomading – A Quiet RV Morning” Blog before the circus begins. Quiet hours end at seven, the show kicks off in aRead More →
Lost in Canada, somewhere Time for a quick ‘catch-up’ so that when I do a brain-dump in the next few days, I’ll not have forgotten everything. This narrative will differ from most in that it’ll just be random bullet notes/impressions from the road! RV Nomading – Lost in Canada TransportingRead More →
A New Adventure – Nomading I’ve decided to start the new RV Nomading Blog in mid-stream, already at a galloping pace. I’ll embed the preamble, introductory information in the text below over the next few days, so I can keep apace of this adventures’ turns of events. Day two ofRead More →
Reversing Directions All good things come to an end, and when planned properly, the end leads to the beginning of new and appealing opportunities. But, before getting to the next ‘good thing,’ we still have to finish the adventure in proper style. Year in Vorarlberg Retrograde! We’re about at theRead More →
Living Well in Vorarlberg It’s been a busy past few weeks and I’ve neglected my blogging – living the good life seems to be preferable to writing about it. But now, I’m pooped. A few minutes of downtown affords the opportunity to catch up with the Blog. The Trifecta ofRead More →
From Utopia to Dystopia? Our dystopian future has already arrived. Movie and Sci-Fi fans may be familiar with the dismal and decayed and depressed prognostications of the likes of Blade Runner or Mad Max, or Logan’s Run. After experiencing such movies people may be grateful their bucolic village or scenicRead More →
Enjoying Summer’s Heat What do Biking, plumbers, and the World Cup have to do with each other…..not much other than these are the themes of my recent days while Ursula has been cavorting around Europe enjoying the sights with a tour group. She left the cats behind to provide meRead More →
Gone Fishen’ It’s no secret that I enjoy fishing. This is why I enjoyed our afternoon visiting a small lake outside of Feldkirch to learn more about Fishing in Vorarlberg. To my fishing colleagues, equally apparent to my enjoyment of fishing is that I have limited skills and talents whenRead More →
Three countries in three days What do Bergenz, Konstanz, and Lindau have in common? They’re all beautiful historic towns filled with the classic sights and sounds a savory smells of Western Europe. Plus, they’re also very common hopping on/off points to biking around the Bodensee (Lake Constance). The BodenseeRead More →
The allure of enjoyment Thirty biked miles and three Fests later, it’s time to train home! It was a long and fun day. This past weekend, the first weekend of June, blew into Vorarlberg with a flurry of festivities – and we had to experience several of them. (Festing WeekendRead More →
Back in Austria The YIV is back on! Lush green trees, azure skies, billowing white clouds and a splendid display of bright, happy colored flowers greeted me on the landing in Frankfurt. Far behind me now was the remote frozen lakes, grey skies, muddy roads and chill of the AlaskanRead More →
Informal leaders influence the workplace in ways we fail to understand at to our detriment. Find the accidental leader and leverage their influence. Read More →
Tactical verses Strategic Problem Solving Sometimes we address Strategic Problems with Tactical solutions and wonder why they fail in the long run. This causes us to question our decision making and problem solving processes, as it should. This example may help orient one to consider addressing root problems rather thanRead More →
Shift your thinking Problem identification is perhaps the most critical step of any Problem Solving Process. Get it wrong and regardless of your analysis and how well you execute your solution, you may still be confronted with the same issue after all the effort. To help identify the problem (and thereforeRead More →
The craziness congruity of insanity and poverty Insanity, much like poverty is a self fulfilling cycle. Breaking from the cycle is illusory, without divine intervention manifest of aid either deeply internal to the soul, or competent and caring from without. Poverty One who lives without any means of support developsRead More →
Gloomy Banishment I once went through a job interview where we applicants were required to tread water in the deep end of a pool for 20 minutes, while fully clothed. For most ‘swimmers,’ that wasn’t a big deal. If you weren’t much of a swimmer, but your muscles were inRead More →
Banishment I’ve been delinquent in my duties to keep the “Year in Vorarlberg” blog up to date. Principally, because I’m not in Vorarlberg and other responsibilities have hijacked my focus and attentions elsewhere. I’ve been banished from the Schengen Zone. We saw this coming, we tried to prevent it…and hereRead More →