Blogs by Steve Lounsberry
It’s 3:30pm on Friday afternoon. Your morning consisted of 3 back-to-back, high intensity meetings. Your lunch was eaten over your keyboard while you pounded out 35 emails. You’ve been making rapid fire decisions for 7 hours straight. Suddenly, your colleague is standing in the doorway of your office asking if you want the chocolate doughnut…
The conference room was packed as Jim and I walked in for our normal weekly sales meeting. The sales team was huddled around the coffee station in the back. “Alright everybody. Thanks for coming. Let’s get started.”For the next 10 minutes, Jim laid out the perceived problem for his team. I saw some shift in…
“Steve, I need some help with something.” That’s how my friend of 30 years, John, opened our Saturday morning coffee meeting. I feared the worst. I’m acutely aware of the problems that plague men of our age. I steeled myself to receive bad news. “Rachel is a crackerjack leader on my administrative team. She’s smart,…
Katalyst Systems Impact’s president, Steve Lounsberry, is a “walk the talk” kind of guy. Ask anyone who has spoken to Steve for five minutes, and they’ll tell you this is true. His discipline, his knowledge, and his passion fuel his actions at a pace that would make an Olympic athlete sweat. From his early days…
When NFL quarterback Tom Brady plays football, he can read a defensive formation by identifying only a few subtle keys. A rookie NFL quarterback is sacked by the time he makes the same reads.
Mental frameworks impact human perceptions; perceptions factor into decision making and actions. Therefore, the ability to control one’s mental frameworks is powerful. It is not worth determining whether mental frameworks are “correct”.
Can two people be at the same event and have different interpretations of the experience? This is certainly the case for some of us on occasion. You and a coworker leave a meeting with the manager and he or she feels inspired to create a new solution and you have other thoughts!
Is simply focusing or thinking about your goal truly important? (“Eyes on the goal!”) The Obstacle is the Way refers readers to Alabama football coach Nick Saban’s winning philosophy, “The Process”. Saban, a three-time national champion explains goal achievement differently than many others: “Don’t think about winning the SEC championship. Don’t think about the national championship. Think…
Your plan and the way things turn out rarely resemble each other. What you think you deserve is rarely what you’ll get. Yet we constantly deny this fact and are repeatedly shocked by the events of the world. Your world is ruled by external factors. Promises are not kept. You don’t always get what is…
What happens to your relationships when you are lending your attention to the people around you? It has never been easier to get distracted from your surroundings than in today’s world, and it’s only going to get easier. So… The concept of full attention takes conscious effort. At the heart of each person is a…