Leadership
Audibles on the Line of Scrimmage: Insights During Football Season
Organizations used to spend weeks, even months, developing multi-year plans that went deep on details about strategies, resource requirements, talent recruitment and more. Annual budgets were drawn from those strategic plans, setting out the milestones and measures that would be used to define goals and incentives for a set 12- month period. After navigating the…
Read MoreRichard III
“Now is the winter of our discontent…” Shakespeare’s insights for our time “Now is the winter of our discontent…” Shakespeare’s insights for our time I can no longer find helpful contemporary context for my daily journey through this crazy time we are living in. So, I have gone to the classics. Shakespeare, specifically. First, I…
Read MoreChange and Attitude
All of the truisms and catch phrases about change and how it is good for us come rushing in when I am dealing with a particularly unwelcome change for our organization. None more so than when we lose a talented colleague. But as life in pandemic has dragged on, we cannot really be surprised that…
Read MoreWho Are We? Where Do We Belong?
It seems we are entering a very challenging time, in terms of understanding where we fit in the world. The identities that guided our life navigation in recent years are coming under extraordinary pressure and the signs are increasing that at least some of those identities will not survive. For those leading organizations or communities,…
Read MoreResilience: On Demand and On Display
It is a great word: resilience. Just saying it out loud causes you to want to sit up straighter, breath a bit deeper, look to the horizon. Some of us were born with the roots of resilience woven into our DNA; some of us have had to work lifetimes to hone it. But we all…
Read MoreInnovation & Growth
I really love it when some big news breaks and I can say ‘I was just thinking about that!’ It happened earlier this week, when President Biden issued Executive Orders that are aimed at spurring innovation, much of it by making it harder for the largest of our private sector companies to have such commanding…
Read MoreAccepting a Tough Leadership Role
“Minneapolis is not alone.” That was the text message I received yesterday from a dear friend who lives in New York. While I very much appreciated her outreach, I think those of us who lead organizations and communities in this metropolitan area do, in fact, need to assume responsibility for taking on some very challenging…
Read MoreA Place of Black Joy: A Q + A with Houston White
Since the events surrounding the murder of George Floyd last spring, the Twin Cities (and our nation as a whole) has experienced a powerful social movement and change – highlighting the importance of Black representation, celebration and business ownership. Last summer, Team Tunheim had the pleasure of chatting with entrepreneur Houston White to discuss the…
Read MoreCan You Lead From the Middle?
The polarization of people here and in many other places continues to create dysfunction or paralysis in both policy-making and in market behavior: how we vote, whether we wear masks, whether we will enter retail spaces, gyms or sporting events…the list of politicized choices keeps growing. With hopes that there is a path back to…
Read MoreOur Salute to Veterans
This Veteran’s Day, team Tunheim is honoring the people in our lives who have honorable served or are currently serving in our military. Lou Ann Olson salutes her brother, Jon Bravinder, Deputy Wing Chaplin for Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, Goldsboro, NC, and her father, Jon Bravinder, Petroleum Oil & Lubricants Technician in the Air…
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