http://www.gregrittler.com live | learn | lead Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:10:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/09/17/why-i-admire-edward-kennedy/ http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/09/17/why-i-admire-edward-kennedy/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:53:35 +0000 Greg Rittler http://www.gregrittler.com/?p=758 I grew up in a church with a lot of “bad” people. Lots of conflict and I never understood why my parents were always on the “right” side of it and the other people were always on the “wrong” side of it. The extremes were killer. Now as an adult I still have whacky family [...]]]> http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/09/17/why-i-admire-edward-kennedy/feed/ 0 http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/09/02/level-5/ http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/09/02/level-5/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:33:38 +0000 Greg Rittler http://www.gregrittler.com/?p=543 In Jim Collin’s book Good to Great, the first characteristic of the companies that made the leap from good to great companies is Level 5 leadership. Level 5 has been touted and discussed around board rooms, business round tables, and in MBA programs. We all get excited about it…we say that we want to be [...]]]> http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/09/02/level-5/feed/ 0 http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/07/12/bono-on-rebranding-africa/ http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/07/12/bono-on-rebranding-africa/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:53:47 +0000 Greg Rittler http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/07/12/bono-on-rebranding-africa/ I’m loving the Sunday morning at the beach. It is beautiful out. First one up. Here is a great article on Rebranding Africa: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/opinion/10bono.html?_r=3&ref=opinion&pagewanted=all]]> http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/07/12/bono-on-rebranding-africa/feed/ 0 http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/07/07/video-update-bloodwater-mission/ http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/07/07/video-update-bloodwater-mission/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:29:30 +0000 Greg Rittler http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/07/07/video-update-bloodwater-mission/ ]]> http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/07/07/video-update-bloodwater-mission/feed/ 0 http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/05/11/time-glass-gems-and-kids/ http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/05/11/time-glass-gems-and-kids/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 01:26:52 +0000 Greg Rittler http://www.gregrittler.com/?p=174 In my consulting work, I often encourage visual people (you know who you are) to create images, symbols, or objects that represent something important to them and place them somewhere that they will clearly be on their mind often. I was practicing a little preaching last week. My oldest son, Caleb, will be driving on [...]]]> http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/05/11/time-glass-gems-and-kids/feed/ 1 http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/04/24/common-greatness/ http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/04/24/common-greatness/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:52:21 +0000 Greg Rittler http://www.gregrittler.com/?p=121 Heard of Susan Boyle? If you haven’t heard of Susan Boyle you probably haven’t watched news the past two weeks. If you have, you know that she has come out of nowhere and taken the world by storm with her performance on Britain’s Got Talent. More than 30,000,000 people have watched various YouTube versions of [...]]]> http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/04/24/common-greatness/feed/ 0 http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/04/10/time-flys/ http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/04/10/time-flys/#comments Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:37:21 +0000 Greg Rittler http://www.gregrittler.com/?p=101 Time to evaluate We are 25% through 2009. It’s a good time to take a look at your goals for 2009 and see how you are progressing. Here are some questions to ask yourself and your organization: What progress are you making toward the goals that you set at the start of the year? What [...]]]> http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/04/10/time-flys/feed/ 0 http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/04/03/fresh-eyes/ http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/04/03/fresh-eyes/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:51:42 +0000 Greg Rittler http://www.gregrittler.com/?p=99 Assessment Tools Ever notice that things that are obvious to an outsider looking in are often hidden from the people on the inside? Many times the most needed changes are changes that cannot be seen by the leaders and team members of an organization. That’s often where Kanon Clarity’s assessment tools play such a vital [...]]]> http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/04/03/fresh-eyes/feed/ 0 http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/03/30/hope/ http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/03/30/hope/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:01:35 +0000 Greg Rittler http://www.gregrittler.com/?p=97 Keep Moving Forward I’ve been asked a few times lately, “What’s with the ‘keep moving forward’ thing?”  That phrase is in most of my emails. My employees hear it from me dozens of times per year. My kids have a relentless Keep Moving Forward theme in their life. On March 30, 2007, Meet the Robinson [...]]]> http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/03/30/hope/feed/ 0 http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/01/07/new-years-resolve/ http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/01/07/new-years-resolve/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:28:25 +0000 Greg Rittler http://www.gregrittler.com/?p=14 what I want to move towards I heard a great talk on Sunday from one of our pastors, George Antonakos on how to be resolute in the New Year. He framed a lot of our relationship with Jesus around three ideas: 1. It’s about relationship. At the end of the day that is what is [...]]]> http://www.gregrittler.com/2009/01/07/new-years-resolve/feed/ 0