Its been nearly a year since I graduated from the Disney Institute in Orlando, Florida.  There I did some writing and I just stumbled upon this:
Having a vision is important. Communicating your vision is more important.
Walt Disney was a master storyteller. As great a visionary as he was, many would argue that his most incredible [...]

Exactly one year ago today Barack Obama became President of the United States of America.  I don’t envy any president as I feel it is the most difficult job in the entire world.  The amount of daily pressure must be incredible.
But I wonder, as a candidate Obama ran on the ideal of change.  It was a [...]

George Hostetter is one heck of a great reporter for the Fresno Bee.  Today he released a blog post about the former Met Museum that is really worth everyone’s time. You can read his blog post here. He had been covering The Met for some time and reading his thoughts on the demise of the [...]

I wanted to write one final entry about our identity as a community.  Well, at least one final entry for 2009.
Today, The Fresno Bee published an article about the chatter in the past two weeks about the Fresno image and brand platform.  You can read the article here. I was interviewed for the article and [...]

Guess what Fresno… There will be nothing that stops the entire country from making fun of us and nothing that will stop the laughing until we give the country a real reason to stop.

in⋅tro⋅spec⋅tion: –noun: observation or examination of one’s own mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc.; the act of looking within oneself.
I have said for years that leadership is both a blessing and a curse.  On the one side it is a blessing because of how incredibly rewarding it can be to lead in the lives [...]