Paying it Forward: Leaders inspire the next leaders #108
Put your best face on -- face to face. All five senses feed creativity and encourage participation. Inspire, create, change, amazing outcomes as all contribute.
Jack Browne, opinion column
March 16, 2025 Times Record News
Unsteady times now after COVID have changed us. Work flows shifted as employers optimized for WFH — work from home. Four years later, workforce demographics, technology and culture have shifted again. For profit or not – competitors work relentlessly to usurp key relationships and differentiation challenging status quo. Change, adapt or die is the rule of survival.
Face to face collaboration is still the best way to craft new ways that create lasting value. When gathering in person, all five senses feed creativity and encourage participation. Like attending the Super Bowl or watching at home, an individual chooses an experience, but only one choice physically feels the crowd excitement.
Can you imagine a Big Brothers, Big Sisters Dancing for the Stars event raising over $100,000 as a YouTube channel? Creativity ruled as the BBBS fundraiser zoomed past $1 million in cumulatively with a memorable inperson 10th anniversary celebration.
Road to College works through Wichita Falls ISD to find those families committed to improving their children’s educational success in a goal driven fashion. Excitement high, students chant in unison as an event close\ing is recorded on TikTok, “Who are we? Road to College. Where are we going? To College. How are we getting there? Together.”
Inspiration or perspiration quota; do you manage by the numbers, or do you inspire others? Rewiring how the place works is a chance for all to participate and make it the best.
Inspired beats “badged in” going through the motions, whether working from home of office. Would you best people want to come to the place that changes the world?
Visit a place that builds exciting futures, the new Eastside Community Center of the Boys and Girls Club.
It opens March 27 for children 6-18. Structure, support and fundamentals to help the next generation accumulate the skills for success.
Face to face, not remote is what keeps kids coming back.
Magic happens as leaders genuinely connect with their teams, understand their strengths, and nurture a culture of mutual support and growth.
It starts at the first encounter.
Will they come back again?
Every time, the same question.
Over time making sugar water, passionately collaborating and changing lives, or telling or selling? What kind of leader are you?
Are you inside the lines, or out of the box?
Jack Browne is a community activist and was technology engineer, sales and marketing executive at Motorola, MIPS Technologies and other companies. How are the children doing?