Kathy Brasby Blog
Who’s this Jonah and why do we care?
Let’s do a quick word association test. I say Jonah, you say….. Yeah, whale. That’s a common response but there’s more to Jonah than that big whale. In fact, the whale isn’t a major part of what we’re going to learn about leadership. A little review: Jonah was an...
When Leading People Isn’t the Main Thing
You know this person: they’ve been to leadership conferences, paid big bucks for one-on-one coaching, spew all the current buzzwords. But they don’t care much about the people they’re leading. Their team is there to help them climb the corporate ladder. Somehow, in...
How Stories Teach Us To Be Better Leaders
Leadership happens in odd and tricky places sometimes. I’ll bet Aaron Brantley would have been thrilled for someone be a leader as he crawled across a concrete parking lot to get help. Brantley was attacked at a busy Detroit gas station, left with a broken leg....
Christmas Cookies
Long before Pinterest could puncture our creative bubble, there was the nativity Christmas cookie cutter set. I sometimes call Pinterest the dream site: I can only do those projects in my dreams. The cookie cutter set was like that. The box seduced me with photos of...
Don’t Look
I had just finished rinsing the shampoo out of my hair when my cell phone rang. I grabbed a towel. Who was calling? My sister. “Cover your eyes,” I said, draping myself with the towel. Water ran down my face. She hung up. Should I call her back? Should I dry myself...
What’s with cookie dough?
“The best way to eat cookies,” said our young guest as he plopped a spoonful of cookie dough on top of a baked cookie. “Best.” And that made me think about my cookie-making history, because I thought I had seen every method of eating and snitching bookie dough. But...
All Natural
I live in Colorado farm country. That blends a very dry climate with some hard-working and practical folks. Which means you see some weird stuff at the farm store. As I stood in the checkout line, I saw a little display box containing little white tubes of a product...
Drowning a dragon
I had one of those coughs that made your toenails rattle and, after a morning of listening to my hacking, a co-worker gave me the evil eye. “That sounds like a smoker’s cough,” he said. “I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life,” I said. But I had to take it back....
Those eyes
I’ve heard of husband eyes but hadn’t really experienced kid eyes until the Christmas tree deal. This eyes thing shows up when someone is sent to a location to look for something and they can’t find it. My older son, who is now a husband himself, tells me that his...
