AMA: Ask Melvin Anything
Melvin: Master Sergeant USMC retired, Mayor Pro Tem Pecan Hill City Council, 14 years in education, 7 years in economic development. He should be able to answer anything thrown his way!
Episodes
December 27, 2024 • 32 mins
Would they miss you if you did not show up tomorrow?
How are you engaging today?
What moves the needle towards results?
Where do you draw energy?
What's Melvin reading?
Peter Drucker’s The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization
Nugget -
1. What is our mission?
2. Who is our customer?
3. What does the customer value?
4. What are our results?
5. What is our plan?
Last Thoughts -
Yesterday is histo...
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November 29, 2024 • 44 mins
How do we fix housing?
Malcolm Gladwell stated that housing is the next big problem we must solve.
Housing—more than just shelter—represents stability, opportunity, and equity. So, where do we even begin?
What’s your take? What bold ideas, unconventional solutions, or small experiments could move the needle on this issue?
What's Melvin reading?
Revenge of The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Nugget - Small-area variation refer...
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November 22, 2024 • 29 mins
What's the current situation in Ukraine? With David Nicholas
What's Melvin reading?
Management Challenges for the 21st Century By Peter Drucker
Nugget - Future-Proof Leadership: Embrace Change, Empower Knowledge, and Lead with Vision.
Last Thoughts - Dr. Richard Grant ~ The brain moves at the speed of sensory data and information. But the human heart moves at the speed of agriculture.
This metaphor suggests that while our c...
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November 8, 2024 • 34 mins
"Have you asked any good questions today?"
A question that can encourage people to explore, wonder, and learn in insightful ways. Nobel laureate in physics Isidor I. Rabi credited his mother with inspiring him to become a scientist by asking him this question instead of the more common "Did you learn anything today?".
“My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions” ~ Peter Drucker
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October 25, 2024 • 43 mins
Can you define the good life? With Matt Grubb
What's Melvin reading?
Managing the Non-Profit Organization by Peter Drucker
Nugget - Business supplies, either goods or services. Government controls. A business has discharged its task when the customer buys the product, paid for it, and it's satisfied with it. Government has discharged its function when it's policies are effective. The "non-profit" institution neither supplies good...
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October 18, 2024 • 49 mins
What matters to you? with Lena Self
Not what is a matter with you.
1. Dream Rangers by TC Bank
https://youtu.be/bp7S56aoIhU
2. Empathy & Compassion by Brene Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HznVuCVQd10
3. The Happiness Advantage: Linking Positive Brains to Performance by Shawn Achor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=GXy__kBVq1M
4. Why Mindfulness Is a Superpower: An Animation by Dan Harris
https://www.youtube...
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October 18, 2024 • 4 mins
Buddy Check Day! Call a vet friend(s) and chat! #BuddyCheck
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October 11, 2024 • 31 mins
What is learning?
"When you went to school were you taught how to learn?" Question asked yesterday on the Silicon Synapse Show
American statesman Benjamin Franklin said, “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
Be humble and remember the words of comedian Bill Murray: “Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.”
What's Melvin reading?
The Drucker Lectures
Nugget ...
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What's the answer to the question you hesitate to ask? Advancing Collective Intelligence with Valerie Hall.
What's Melvin reading?
Big Little Breakthroughs
Nugget - Let's recap:
Imagination = any new idea
Creativity = a new idea that has some value, artistic or otherwise
Innovation = a creative idea that has utility
Last Thoughts - "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Maya Angelou
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August 23, 2024 • 22 mins
Is a bottle neck good or bad?
What's Melvin reading?
The Little Zen Companion
Nugget - It is not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring. - Spanish proverb
Last Thoughts -
"It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.“
- Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
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August 16, 2024 • 22 mins
How do we maintain a merry heart?
What's Melvin reading?
the Tao of Pooh
Nugget - the uncarved block
things in their original state carry their own natural power. This concept is represented as the "Uncarved Block” and is a significant principle of Taoism
Using Wu-wei (woo way) you go by circumstances and listen to your own Intuition. "This isn't the best time to do this. I better go that way. When you do that sort of thing, peopl...
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August 9, 2024 • 30 mins
When is the last time you did something for the first time?
One of my values is curiosity
(“Curiosity is more important than knowledge.” ― Albert Einstein)
One of my mentors is Big *Al
What do you need to do with a mentor?
*Albert Einstein
I seek advice
I listen
I take action
What's Melvin reading?
Black Irish Jab #22 A Day In The Life - 24 Hours in the Trenches vs. Resistance
Nugget - "The instant I open my eyes."
Steven's...
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June 25, 2024 • 19 mins
What's your theme song?
Warren Zevon I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (1976)
Harvey Mackey (in Daniel Pink's Office Hours) asked my high school students to remember one of his favorite sayings: “He couldn’t sleep fast enough.” "In other words, I’m afraid if I sleep too much, I’ll miss something."
The Impossible Dream
What's Melvin reading?
Your Brain on Art | How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross
Nugget - the human brain ...
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May 15, 2024 • 39 mins
What's a Big Idea Book?
Listen and learn as Fernando Labastida, author of "The Startup Book: How to Write a Book That Designs a New Market Category & Positions You as The Leader," discusses the seven essential steps to designing a new category and writing a book that establishes you as a thought leader in your field. From leveraging AI to accelerate your book-writing process to using your book as a catalyst for public speaking, col...
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May 2, 2024 • 20 mins
"This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.” - Steven Pressfield
What's Melvin reading? Building A Story Brand by Donald M...
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April 10, 2024 • 16 mins
"Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want." - Carolyn Merchant
"Your greatness is measured by your horizons." Michelangelo
What's Melvin reading?
The Consulting Bible by Alan Weiss PhD
Nugget - My job is to improve the client's condition.
Last Thoughts - Seth Godin stated, "You can't shrink yourself to greatness!" creation
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April 2, 2024 • 20 mins
Eleanor Roosevelt's quote "Do one thing every day that scares you." Jump
What's Melvin reading? Building a Story Brand by Donald Miller
Nugget - it's about the customer
Last Thoughts - "Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."~ Eleanor Roosevelt Former First Lady of the United States
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March 26, 2024 • 16 mins
Why dow e as people make this claim?
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March 19, 2024 • 40 mins
"Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience." Albert Einstein
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the highest peak, in the deepest ocean, empty of all limiting thoughts. - The Art of Peace
What's Melvin reading?
Put Your Ass [where your Heart wants to be] by Steven Pressfield
Nugget - the universe conspires to help you
Last Thoughts - “They were seeking out the treasure of ...
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March 12, 2024 • 42 mins
What's a Habu? with Matt Hall
The boy that lived
What's Melvin reading?
Everyone Leads compiled by Dan Zandra
Nugget - love the quotes
maybe write the misleadership book?
Last Thoughts - Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
Aldous Huxley
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