Anyone can make a New Year’s resolution. Here at UCEC, we’ve chosen instead focus areas where we plan to make improvements, create efficiencies or strategize a better way to move the business forward.
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Faced with a rather large issue that “foggy Christmas Eve,” Santa turned to an unlikely hero who was actually an “outsider, outcast, or outlier” among all the resources that were available to him at the North Pole.
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Last week, my management team and I had our annual UCEC Planning Retreat. As we did last year, we had it off-site to limit interruptions, and engaged TAB advisor Blair Koch as the facilitator of the meeting and to capture key ideas and initiatives for the coming year.
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I’m no stranger to the unexpected in our shop, so thinking about this topic made me consider what positives we learn from situations we probably wouldn’t have chosen.
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As a teenager, Garrod Massey had a passion for electronics, even building his own guitar system out of a telephone. Classes in high school included electronics and robotics, but post-high school, Garrod found himself in a job that he didn’t like: appliance delivery for a large home improvement store.
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The ability to "fail upward" is what I believe many extraordinary people have in common. I explained it this way to my son after a recent soccer loss. I said, "You lost today, but what did you learn from it?"
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I was driving the other night and noticed several cars with headlights out. That there were multiple cars with only one headlight working really got me thinking.
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Yesterday, Evan Coulter and I attended the Arvada Economic Development Association (AEDA) 20th annual Business Appreciation Awards Breakfast. Held at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, the “What’s Your Big Idea, Arvada?" event honored leading Arvada businesses.
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