by Dale Kreienkamp | Sep 22, 2023 | Blog, Personal & Career Development
I’ve always been driven to be successful. Sometimes that’s good, sometimes it works against me. I was about 3 years into my career when Clara joined our organization. Her specialty was compensation, and I was responsible for benefit. My initial impressions of her were... 
by Dale Kreienkamp | Sep 18, 2023 | Blog, Personal & Career Development
I came into the kitchen one night and told my wife we were playing a game from our past, Space Invaders. It was one of the earliest video games you could play in the late 1970s and she remembered the game. At that time, my wife and I had been happily married for... 
by Dale Kreienkamp | Sep 10, 2023 | Blog, Leadership, Personal & Career Development
Early Monday morning, a week after the announcement of a divisional re-organization, resulting in a reduction of 8% of the staff, and changing several reporting relationships, the Divisional VP took a walk to see how everyone was doing. With each department he passed... 
by Dale Kreienkamp | Sep 3, 2023 | Blog, Personal & Career Development
There’s an expression I’ve heard all my life: “All good things must come to an end.” I heard it from my dad, my scoutmaster, or a teacher telling us it was time to stop doing whatever we were doing and move on. Yet there is wisdom in that statement. Think about it,... 
by Dale Kreienkamp | Aug 28, 2023 | Blog, Leadership
Mary finished listening to a story from Cindy, about something Nicole had failed to do. She was now mad. How could Nicole have done that? What was she thinking? She immediately went to find Nicole while saying to herself, I know this won’t go well. Her heart started... 
by Dale Kreienkamp | Aug 21, 2023 | Blog, Leadership, Personal & Career Development
He was a legend in his own mind, nothing he couldn’t do, just ask him. Everything had to go through him for a final decision. His talented staff were hired for their gifts, but also their personality to be deferential and never challenge him. If you wondered how...
