It's HOT out there.  We are in the middle of a USA heat wave in July.  Why not take some time recognize your hard workers with some "cool" themed recognition ideas?  This week, Pete Blank shares ideas around...

Popsicles

Shorts

Icee's and Slurpee's

Hawaiian Shirts and Lei's

Cold Movies with Cold Cuts

Each Sunday, Pete takes a short verse out of the Book of Proverbs and tries to find applicability to our everyday lives as leaders.  Today's verse is Proverbs 2:6 which states:

6 For the Lord gives wisdom;    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Plus Up! - Leaders do more than expected is one of the six leadership legs of the roach.  These six legs are the traits leaders need to have to do the dirty work of leadership.  Today, Pete shares how one man walking him to his item at Walmart defines what "Plus Up" is really all about.

This week, Pete Blank shares another list of his personal pet peeves.  While these traits do drive him nuts, he is more concerned for damage to the personal brand of those leaders who exemplify these traits on a regular basis.  This week's pet peeves are:

Giving Political Answers

Signage without Accountability

Non Zipper-Mergers

Lack of Benefits Clarity

Next-in-Line Cutters

This week, Pete Blank shares another list of his personal pet peeves.  While these traits do drive him nuts, he is more concerned for damage to the personal brand of those leaders who exemplify these traits on a regular basis.  This week's pet peeves are:

Giving Political Answers

Signage without Accountability

Non Zipper-Mergers

Lack of Benefits Clarity

Next-in-Line Cutters

This week, Pete Blank shares another list of his personal pet peeves.  While these traits do drive him nuts, he is more concerned for damage to the personal brand of those leaders who exemplify these traits on a regular basis.  This week's pet peeves are:

Giving Political Answers

Signage without Accountability

Non Zipper-Mergers

Lack of Benefits Clarity

Next-in-Line Cutters

This week, Pete Blank shares another list of his personal pet peeves.  While these traits do drive him nuts, he is more concerned for damage to the personal brand of those leaders who exemplify these traits on a regular basis.  This week's pet peeves are:

Giving Political Answers

Signage without Accountability

Non Zipper-Mergers

Lack of Benefits Clarity

Next-in-Line Cutters

This week, Pete Blank shares another list of his personal pet peeves.  While these traits do drive him nuts, he is more concerned for damage to the personal brand of those leaders who exemplify these traits on a regular basis.  This week's pet peeves are:

Giving Political Answers

Signage without Accountability

Non Zipper-Mergers

Lack of Benefits Clarity

Next-in-Line Cutters

In this episode of Leadership by Proverbs, Pete Blank shares a thought on the idea of Wisdom.  It comes from verses 20-21 which state:

Out in the open wisdom calls aloud,    she raises her voice in the public square;21 on top of the wall[d] she cries out,    at the city gate she makes her speech:

Pick Up the Roach has a leg titled "Pick Up!" which means Leaders remove their blinders.  Sometimes, leaders need to remove their blinders and take a long, hard look at themselves.