I’ve posted several times on the Fundamental Organizing Principles (FOPs), values and how we develop a personal and corporate culture around them. I also suggested that we need to try and discover where we are in relationship to the corporate culture and “mind the gap,” so to speak. Well, I got called out on this one!
Regardless of how I try, I cannot avoid making those New Year “commitments” to myself; even if I don’t voice them out loud. I try to convince myself that I don’t really care about all this year end craziness and a New Year is no big deal. It seems like I’m not successful avoiding the whole thing after all.
I’ve been in the Nashville, TN area since the 29th and leaving for home tomorrow the 9th. The trip is centered around visiting with my father and attempting to square away some “elder-care issues” to help my sister who normally handles that work. While I’m the oldest of the four children, Debbi is the oldest daughter and when Mom died Dad moved from Florida to Tennessee to be closer to Debbi. That was a very smart move on his part and my sister is delighted (most of the time) to be able to help him. This trip has put some things in perspective and while I’m sure many of you have already been through this process, I’ll share anyway and perhaps it will be useful for some who have not yet gone through the elder-care process. And, as is my want, I will stretch things to find a few analogies about leadership from my observations. So here’s some “lessons learned” from this trip.
Depending on your point of view, we in the USA are either cruelly over taxed or don’t pay our fair share of Federal Taxes. The TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party crew thinks we are over taxed. I like to make sure I take advantage of all the tax breaks I can find, but in the end, I’m grateful for the fact that we earn enough income to have to pay taxes. My spouse and I also expressed liking to actually sign the checks to pay our bills. No on-line checking for us. How crazy is that?
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