Tag: Authentic Growth

Before Undo. Before AI. We Just Had Redo.

Written on February 23, 2026. Posted in Business Leadership, Career, Hands In The Soil Marketing Leadership, Personal Thoughts.

How undo took the permanence out and put the pressure on Forty years ago I was a bleached-headed skater kid in Northern California, which at the time felt like the center of something even if no one would have admitted that out loud, because...

Authentic Growth, Hands in The Soil, Marketing Truth, Personal story, Thought Leadership

A Candid Conversation Between a Business Strategist and a Technology Leader

Written on February 18, 2026. Posted in Business Leadership, Operational Leadership.

The persistent disconnect between the C-suite and the server room Co-authored by Andrew Bloo and Edward Fox Edward and I no longer operate within the same organizational walls, yet our paths continue to intersect in the shared realization...

Authentic Growth, IT Leadership, Thought Leadership

Honestly, Losing Momentum Sucks… But That’s Not the End of Your Story

Written on February 17, 2026. Posted in Career, Hands In The Soil Marketing Leadership, Personal Thoughts.

When life derails your carefully laid plans it’s not always about descending into total chaos or facing outright failure – often, it’s an opportunity for something much deeper to emerge. Most of us build our careers around...

Authentic Growth, Career Stories, Hands in The Soil, Personal story

#OpenToWork: AI Has Reshaped White-Collar Careers

Written on February 16, 2026. Posted in Business Leadership, Future Marketing, Personal Thoughts.

Why Non-Linear Builders Are Both Losing and Winning If you are in the job market in 2026, you already know something has shifted — even if no one is saying it out loud. AI is steadily reshaping traditional white-collar work, and the hiring...

Authentic Growth, Career Stories, Hands in The Soil, Personal story

AI: Some Kind of Wonderful… or Just Static on a Monitor.

Written on February 16, 2026. Posted in Business Leadership, Career, Operational Leadership, Personal Thoughts.

There’s a quiet question a lot of us Gen Xers are asking right now. We built the digital world. Wired it together when nothing worked right, survived the crashes, rebuilt again, and again and again. We weren’t born into tech—we were excitedly...

Authentic Growth, Career Stories, Marketing Truth, Thought Leadership

Trends Are Curios by Nature, AI Makes Them Programmatic by Design…

Written on February 4, 2026. Posted in Brand Marketing, Personal Thoughts, Sales and Marketing.

The Trend: “Hey AI, create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me!” At the surface, this trend looks playful.A fun way to see yourself as a character. A moment of novelty before the next scroll. But...

Authentic Growth, Brand Building, Brand Stategy, Marketing Truth, Viral Marketing

Leadership Superpowers That Turn Into HR Super-Problems

Written on February 3, 2026. Posted in Business Leadership, Hands In The Soil Marketing Leadership, Operational Leadership.

“Two Cliques. One Table. No Easy Answers.” By Andrew Bloo(HITSLeadership™)& Reanette Etzler(The Strategic HR Coach) Leadership and HR often sit on opposite sides of the same tension. Leadership is wired for momentum: speed,...

Authentic Growth, Hands in The Soil, HR Leadership, Thought Leadership

The Most Dangerous Leadership Trap I Ever Fell Into

Written on January 26, 2026. Posted in Business Leadership, Hands In The Soil Marketing Leadership, Personal Thoughts.

From one leader who’s been there to another Hey, I want to be really honest with you. I’ve struggled. I’ve failed spectacularly at times. And looking back, a lot of those failures came from the same place: pride and...

Authentic Growth, Career Stories, Hands in The Soil, Marketing Leadership, Personal story, Thought Leadership

The Best Worst Job I Ever Had — And That’s Saying a Lot

Written on October 22, 2025. Posted in Business Leadership, Personal Thoughts.

Norman Building & Design. A job I took after a divorce and the closing of Cascade Hop Farm. When the phone rang, it was the new CEO, a man I genuinely liked from an earlier interview and considered a professional friend. I didn’t know it...

Authentic Growth, Career Stories, Marketing Truth, Personal story, Thought Leadership

37 Voices, One Common Thread: Hands in the Soil Leadership in Action

Written on October 21, 2025. Posted in Business Leadership, Hands In The Soil Marketing Leadership, Personal Thoughts.

Every once in a while, it pays to pause—not to look at numbers or dashboards—but to look back at people. Recently I took the time to read through the 37 recommendations written about me on LinkedIn. Each one stopped me for a moment. Not...

Authentic Growth, Brand Stategy, Hands in The Soil, Marketing Leadership