Tag: focus

• What are you living for?

  Kathy was browsing in a gift shop near our home last week and struck up a conversation with the lady clerk. This is not an uncommon thing for Kathy. She has a gift of being able to connect quickly with people. This lady was originally from Columbia (South America not South Carolina) and she has…

  Joe Passkiewicz

  June 12, 2017

  Focus, Relationships, Vision

  barns, Columbia, community, expectations, focus, Leadership development, lifestyle, priorities, work

• Don’t Be A Pac-Man!

  Are you getting swallowed up? Do you remember the game Pac-Man? This is going back a bunch of years, but it was one of the first video/arcade games where the Pac-Man travelled the course swallowing up all the cookies as he goes along. Never stopping. Devouring the cookies.  The cookies just go away. I used…

  Joe Passkiewicz

  November 16, 2016

  Excellence, Focus, Strategy

  careers, effort, employees, excellence, expected, focus, Games, Leadership development, management, Skill, waste

• Photo Friday: The Little Things

  I’m traveling again on business. At the TSA check today, I pulled out my toiletries out of my bag and spotted a little note card that my wife put in my bag about five years ago. I was leaving for a men’s retreat and she snuck the note in my bag along with some other…

  Joe Passkiewicz

  June 24, 2016

  Attitude, Focus, Strategy

  focus, leadership, little, love, Photography, relationships, smile

• Dancing with the King!

  I recently lost a friend named Pete to cancer. He fought very hard against the disease and we prayed very hard that the Lord would heal him. Yet, the Lord had other plans. He chose to take Peter home. Pete was known to get up during worship at church and dance a bit as an…

  Joe Passkiewicz

  September 12, 2015

  Belief, Focus, Vision

  dancing, faith, Father, focus, giving, Jesus, social hour, Sunday, theology, worship

• The Love Affair

  Oh, how I love you…  The way you make me feel good when I feel like I’m all alone.  You tell me little things that build me up. The way you always warm my heart. You are so charming, so witty, so amazing! Sometimes you bring three people in, all at the same time. With…

  Joe Passkiewicz

  February 19, 2015

  Change, Focus, Relationships

  affair, alone, Blogging, charming, focus, heart, insecurity, leadership, leadingbyserving, lonely, love, loved, social media, special, texting

• Can Your Weakness Be Your Strength?

  This past year we engaged a behavioral consultant (Dr. Charles Coker- link to his website HERE) at our office to develop personality profiles to help us understand each other better.  This process has been a real eye opener and has resulted in significant self-realization for our team and has helped us to really know each…

  Joe Passkiewicz

  December 10, 2014

  Excellence, Relationships, Strategy

  accountable, Construction, focus, leadership, leadingbyserving, personality, servant leader, strength, weakness

• Ambushed!

  Last week I met with a woman on our team at work.  This meeting was long overdue.  We have been very busy lately dealing with problems and putting out fires.  This was a meeting to discuss process improvement, which seems to take a back seat when you are busy doing “the work”.  I had several…

  Joe Passkiewicz

  October 8, 2013

  Attitude, Change, Vision

  business, Education and Training, excellence, focus, Leadership development, Physical exercise, Problem solving, Process improvement, servant leader, Team building

• 4 Cures For Acute I Disease

  I read a post on Twitter from Jim Kouzes where new research indicates a 42% rise in the use of “I” and a 10% decline in “we” in American books.  Jim pointed to a potential drop in teamwork as a consequence, but I think the rise in the “I” is really about something else. We…

  Joe Passkiewicz

  August 16, 2013

  Attitude, Excellence, Relationships, Strategy

  Book, Clinical trial, comparison, conversations, cure, Disease, Facebook, focus, Food and Drug Administration, leadingbyserving, problem, research, self-centered, serve, talents, Theodore Roosevelt, Twitter, United States

• Multi-Tasking Danger Zone

  One of the characteristics of a gifted servant leader is putting others in front of you.  You may be thinking- check that box- I do that!  I am humble.  I always put others ahead of myself.  I have a servants heart.  I’m all over this! Let me give you an area in putting others first…

  Joe Passkiewicz

  August 20, 2012

  Change, Focus, Relationships, Vision

  Blogging, business, Computer multitasking, Disrespectful, focus, gifted servant, Health, Honor, leadership, leadingbyserving, Mobile phone, Multi-tasking, servant leader, servants heart, Television, United States

• Warm Bread: Irresistable!

  Back in the early 90s,  Kathy and I particularily enjoyed a restaurant that had an appetizer specialty called teacup bread.  The bread would arrive warm and still nested inside of a teacup.  This was a really special treat.  The bread was light and soft and had a sweet flavor.  You really could eat this bread for…

  Joe Passkiewicz

  July 6, 2012

  Attitude, Excellence, Focus, Initiative, Relationships

  appetizer, Baking and Confections, Bread, Cook, Dough, focus, Food, Home, leadership, relationships, Restaurant, restaurant experiences, restaurants, smile, sweet bread, travel, vacation, warm bread, Wine tasting descriptors