Peter Auger, Auburn Hills City Manager
Thoughts on running a city, daily musings, and everything in between.
City Manager, Auburn Hills, MI
Food for Thought
By Karrie Marsh, Executive Assistant and Guest Blogger “For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.” Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t
Posted in Leadership, Random Thoughts
Seize Your Full Potential Part II
By Karrie Marsh, Executive Assistant and Guest Blogger Did you make time to answer the first 10 questions that Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press Business Columnist, dares us to ask ourselves that will allow us to focus on our calling and seize our full potential in our personal and professional lives? Ready or not, here [...]
Posted in Communication, Leadership, Planning, Random Thoughts, Service
Dodd-Frankenstein
I read the above name with curiosity this morning. I remember Stoker’s Dracula, Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, but I thought it was Shelley’s Frankenstein… What gives with that, I had to read more. Of course most of you readers probably already know it’s not about some scary novel, this article ended up [...]
Posted in Business, Legislative, Random Thoughts
The Adventure, The Journey
I like life’s journey and everyone experiences a little bit different adventure in their own journey through life. Recently, one of the boards that I have the honor of sitting on lost our chairman. I should say he lost his six year battle with cancer. Maybe lost is the wrong word, it seems so negative [...]
Posted in Communication, Leadership, Random Thoughts, Service
Wise Leadership?
With all the Holiday gatherings over the past 2 weeks, no matter how hard you try, politics of the day always seems to creep into the conversations. Working in the field that I do, I do not have the luxury of just aligning to my team (e.g. Democrat or Republican parties). No matter who is [...]
Posted in Leadership, Random Thoughts
Learn to embrace conflict
By Karrie Marsh, Executive Assistant and Guest Blogger Even as I type those words, the concept seems a bit silly to me. But this is something I hope to work on in 2013. I guess I could call it one of my New Year’s Resolutions. I don’t want to invite chaos and conflict into my [...]
Posted in Business, Communication, Random Thoughts
Thatwouldbecool
I’m going to start a new exchange. Kind of like the Stock Exchange, but maybe more like the Carbon Exchange. You see I need to buy a few more minutes for each day so I can be more productive and bring value to my family and our organization. I admit, still have some details to [...]
Posted in Communication, Leadership, Random Thoughts
Balance
I will be working on balancing next week. I find sometimes even I don’t practice what I preach. Life is all about balance. Most things in moderation, but life still happens and can throw many curve balls. My Dad drilled into us growing up that life is not fair, so you better get over it. [...]
Posted in Leadership, Random Thoughts
Sometimes we are not as smart as we think we is
I I believe it was Douglas Adams, in Last Chance to See who stated “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” We always think we are so smart only to show ourselves how we get caught [...]
Posted in Random Thoughts
Magic Formula
What if I told you there was a magic formula to improve your relationships. How much would you pay for that? Well, I don’t have a formula to sell you, but there was a study done confirming that everyone can improve relationships whether it’s at home, at work or in schools and here is the kicker, [...]
Posted in Leadership, Projects, Random Thoughts
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