Start the wave of opening up your personal space to others. It might just be life changing. We dislike networking because we carry in who we are and not what we can become. Joe Dutkiewicz, founder and chief leadership thought partner of Crayon Leadership, shares an activity to bring more value to not only networking […]
Read More »We have a ring around us that has been called our personal space. Others might enter at great risk. Our body language may tell them to back away. We need to let them into our space if we are desiring to accomplish great things. Open up your space to fill the room. You might find […]
Read More »We as a human have integrated this immediate tensing of our body when someone comes near us. Expand your space by visualizing something that makes you smile. You might just welcome a person who your key to get to the epic dream you have. Visit: http://freshstart1.eventbee.com to gain the inspiration you need to bring to […]
Read More »We see broken crayons in our life. We see and interact with them daily. Sometimes, we feel we have a broken crayon. What do we do to get past the broken crayon? What are the ways we can leverage this to go forward and be of more value to all. Listen in, like, comment and […]
Read More »Sometimes we are a full-sized brand new crayon; other times we might be feeling a little less, like our crayon tip is broken off. The crayon is still usable and valuable to the total picture. Teams sometimes are a box of broken crayons. We need to embrace each other and realize the value that we […]
Read More »APEX Living Moment June 01 2017 – What’s Your Ding? Joe Dutkiewicz, founder and chief leadership thought partner of Crayon Leadership, continues the series with step three on living at the APEX leveraging your uniqueness to establishing your mark in the world. In the words of Steve Jobs, Apple Company co-founder, who lived by thinking […]
Read More »When you look at your social and emotional strengths, what do you desire to do in your time on this rotating orb? Where is it that you want to make a difference. APEX leaders do sit around waiting for the right time or the right thing to make them go. Where, when, what, why and […]
Read More »Quick to make an opinion. Quick to build barriers. Quick to protest. Quick to say someone is different. It may take a long time to do the things to make forward progress. Trust takes time to buy another’s product or service. Relationships take time. Achieving goals takes time. Where is the speed? We can change […]
Read More »We treat others in the first 30 seconds or less to an assessment of what we see and hear. We instruct our subconscious minds with the results to bring up with each encounter with that person. Our mind can only handle positive or negative assessments. If you see a person uniquely amazing, each encounter will […]
Read More »We can be described in 63 characters. What are they and where might we use it today as we live at full SPEED? Tune in, like, share and leave a comment! Thanks for listening live on catching this on the recording! #leadership #apexthinking #uphillgrowth #empowerment #engagement #businessevolution #personalgrowth #growthhacking #freshwind #joedutkiewicz #crayonleadership https://youtu.be/ga__uhERCRY
Read More »Whatever the moment we find ourselves in that is out of the norm, we do something that threatens to send us down a path. We hunker down. We allow FEAR to exist, to control us. FEAR is part of the equation as much as LOVE is. There are 63 characters that keep us where we […]
Read More »Desires fail to be achieved because the person creating them doesn’t start with the current position before determining the path. There is a decision made to abandon the present like a person can just flip a switch and start making the future happen. Leaders know they need to enhance skills, they have to develop the […]
Read More »Join Joe Dutkiewicz, founder and chief thought partner of Crayon Leadership LLC, with his friends and fellow business partners, Lisa Bosquez and Mark Gai, as they discuss courage and what you need to go forward in life. Get an awesome view of the center of ourselves that needs to call on courage when we need […]
Read More »Courage is defined as mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty. We sometimes need to dig down deep. I know that you have it within you. The test is sometimes worse than the subject. It is within these tests that we find ourselves. It sounds easy like you can […]
Read More »With the firing of Ford CEO Mark Fields, it reminds me of times during my business career and the times I saw this missing the near. How does APEX thinking solve visionaries keep on track? Joe Dutkiewicz, founder and chief thought partner of Crayon Leadership, discusses the key to being aware of the vision of […]
Read More »When the distortions, the infighting, chaos, stuff hits the fan, happen at work, what returns the team to path ahead.Joe Dutkiewicz, founder and chief thought partner at Crayon Leadership, discusses how to take advantage of Thinking Blind to remove those distortions and forge forward. What do our teams do? When something happens what is the […]
Read More »Many obstacles may get in the way of the team reaching the performance they need to achieve the established goals to fulfill the business vision. Leaders think into the environment and become blind to the distortions of the egos in the room, biases aired, filters engaged to determine the path forward for the team to […]
Read More »“Break It” What is happening in your day? What’s holding you back from reaching what you want? Joe Dutkiewicz, founder and chief thought partner of crayon Leadership, discusses how to look at today and to launch into the weekend with something life changing.
Read More »We often feel our mind is overworked. “We just can’t think today…” or “Let me think…”, we tell ourselves. Usually it is because we are not relaxed and we are feeling stressed. What instructions are you giving your mind, your subconscious? Have you given it the right and best conditions to be ready to receive […]
Read More »What number of good thoughts each day are sabotaged by ourselves and others? We establish boundaries for conversations and problem solving that rarely surpass the norm. Our thinking remains somewhere between stage 2 and stage 3 groupthink as we look not to “rock the ship”. APEX thinking leaders involve the skeptics to make their good […]
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