What is your higher organizational purpose? Recently, I was a part of a working group at a university. The goal: to define faculty, staff, and student expectations of behavior toward one another – a compelling and important task. As the group began brainstorming values of the organization to start coming up with expectations, I asked, “How … Read more
As humans we have a tendency to overlook the small things in life that, when added together, create what we see, feel, and experience. For example, when we look to the west here in Colorado, we rarely say, “wow, the geologic forces that facilitated the erosion of that landscape into those tiny sediments really created … Read more
Last night, in the middle of a talk I was giving on living with authentic purpose, a student in the audience asked me, …”but Zach… where do I even start!?” I suppose I did not start the talk on a light note. Right before this question was asked, I had suggested that we should all … Read more