Tag: Thought Leadership

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

The Human Cost of “Correct” Answers

Written on February 16, 2026. Posted in Brand Marketing, Career, Future Marketing, Hands In The Soil Marketing Leadership, Personal Thoughts.

Early in my career, I became obsessed with unlocking the secrets of our industry’s pioneers — not because I wanted the tactics or the shortcuts or the tidy frameworks you can laminate and sell back to management teams that secretly hopes...

Career Stories, Hands in The Soil, Marketing Truth, Thought Leadership

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

Why Leaders Still Think HR Is a Speed Bump

Written on February 11, 2026. Posted in Business Leadership, Operational Leadership, Personal Thoughts.

(Leadership Lens: Andrew Bloo | Strategic HR Lens: Reanette Etzler) For decades, leadership culture has been conditioned to see HR as the brake pedal in a business obsessed with speed. Leadership hits the gas.HR reaches for the brakes.And...

Hands in The Soil, Thought Leadership

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

Social Loafing and the “CYA” Tax: How to Reclaim Your Team’s Momentum

Written on January 30, 2026. Posted in Business Leadership, Hands In The Soil Marketing Leadership.

Why the real work is building a culture that doesn’t need the meeting Most conversations about meetings focus on time management. How many meetings are too many?Which invites should you decline?How do you protect your calendar? Those are...

Career Stories, 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