I’ve had a really great year. For those that know me that might be surprising given all the turmoil and change I’ve faced over the past 13 months, but let me assure you it’s absolutely true. Despite all the changes and challenges I’ve experienced one of the most rewarding years of my life, and I […]
Author Archive: Tim Empringham, MBA
Your Meetings Suck – Admit It
How many meetings do you go to every week where you walk out feeling frustrated that in the span of 60 minutes nothing got accomplished, nothing moved forward, and the only apparent outcome is the follow-up meeting that will be making its way to you via an email meeting invite during the next 60 minutes? […]
Take Chances When Opportunity Strikes
I’ve recently had new opportunities present itself on multiple fronts in my life both personally and professionally. Those opportunities couldn’t be different from one another in their context, but upon reflection I think my potential success in both cases is very similar. The key to my success will be a willingness to take chances when […]
Unleashing Authenticity
I watched an incredible TED Talk this morning from Caroline Casey that had an extraordinary effect on me. I’m fairly sure I got a few looks on the GO Train as I alternated between wiping tears from my eyes to chuckling out loud, but the message struck a core nerve for me. I won’t spoil […]
Who’s Driving Your Innovation Bus?
Innovation has become the buzzword of the decade with every CEO, Senior Manager, and CTO beating the drum for “Innovation” in their companies. While I don’t disagree with them on the need for innovation, I do have a major issue with the way that many of them are driving that innovation agenda. When tech leaders or […]
Don’t Play a Leader… BE a Leader
I got out to play some shinny hockey this morning (I’m a goalie) and the two hour session could best be described as a tale of two halves. I played on Monday and had a great session, was seeing the puck well, and seemed to be able to stop almost everything. Today when I got […]
Make Your Season for Caring Last All Year
Every year around this time we celebrate a series of holidays based around hope, thanks, love for fellow man, and the promise of a new start in a new year. While I appreciate the warm feelings I get when the Christmas decorations come out and our standard greeting of strangers shifts from a polite nod […]
What Are You Feeling?
I’ve spent a fair bit of time reflecting over the past few months about what I’ve always considered to be more of a “non-business” issue – feelings. Through that reflection and reading however, I believe I have connected some dots for myself that I thought might be valuable to share more broadly. What I’ve discovered […]
Take Time to Preflect
At the end of every day or experience we know the power of taking time to reflect on what happened, how we behaved, what decisions we made, and how everything turned out so we can learn and grow from our experiences, but there is an equally powerful exercise that can help you start your day […]
Sniper With A Shotgun
Generally it is considered mutually exclusive to take the “shotgun” approach to innovation or the “sniper” approach to innovation. You are either in one camp or the other, but certainly not in both. In the shotgun approach you fire lots of little ideas at the wall in a seemingly random fashion in hopes that one […]