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Why Are We Still Changing Our Names When We Get Married?
I was once at a wedding where, in the ceremony, the person performing the ceremony referred to the woman taking on her husband's name....

Ryan Houmand
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It’s Not Personal (so, don't take it personally)
I saw a post on Linkedin today for my old job. It’s a different title, but it’s my old job. The one they said they didn’t need back in...

Ryan Houmand
Mar 263 min read
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How Democracies Die: The 5-Step Playbook to Autocracy
Democracy Doesn't Die in Darkness—It Dies in Apathy I've been watching since January 20th. Before that, I didn't figure there was much to...

Ryan Houmand
Mar 255 min read
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I Earned this Beanie
Six years ago today I earned this hat. The PCMR stands for Park City Mountain Resort and I was on day 3 of my training as an apprentice...

Ryan Houmand
Dec 2, 20203 min read
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From Manager to Coach: Feedback
"There's a client service manager position. I want to post for it, and I'm hoping you can put in the good word for me." This is when I...

Ryan Houmand
Aug 27, 20204 min read
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From Manager to Coach: Observe
"It's not how good you are, it's how good you're gonna be that matters." That's a quote from one of my favorite TED talks. You can see...

Ryan Houmand
Aug 15, 20204 min read
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Everything I Needed to Know In Kindergarten, I Learned this Morning When I Crashed On My Bike
My skin's a little dry from swimming every morning, so I think I'll ride up the hill to the dirt this morning to get some exercise. That...

Ryan Houmand
Aug 11, 20204 min read
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From Manager to Coach: Analyze
I sat in that manager meeting in the big boardroom excited to share with my peers what I'd discovered. I thought what I had was pretty...

Ryan Houmand
Aug 9, 20206 min read
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From Manager to Coach
What does a manager do? There are as many answers to that question as there are managers. Since I can't give all those answers, I'll...

Ryan Houmand
Aug 1, 20203 min read
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What I Learned About Engagement From Inside a 22 Inch Pipe
Take a look at your team. Take out 3 mental buckets. The first bucket is labeled "Engaged" the second and third are labeled "Not engaged" an

Ryan Houmand
May 28, 20205 min read
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Growing Up in My Backyard
I came across come old pictures recently (you'll see some of them below). They were from when I was a kid, mostly taken in the backyard...

Ryan Houmand
Feb 16, 202012 min read
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I'd Like to Thank Jake Burton Carpenter
This week Jake Burton Carpenter died from a long-running bout with cancer. Until a few months ago, I didn't know anything about him. Even...

Ryan Houmand
Nov 24, 20195 min read
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That Moment I Realized I'm Not a Manager
At my dad's retirement party at the big office where he worked in Houston, was when I thought I was a manager. I saw the environment he...

Ryan Houmand
Jun 19, 20194 min read
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The Right Role
This morning I got up at 5am to train two people in Sweden. I showed them how to create online trainings that will be engaging and...

Ryan Houmand
May 22, 20193 min read
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1972
Today I came across a something I didn’t know still existed. Something I saw, a place I’d been. I guessed it would have been gone a long...

Ryan Houmand
Feb 3, 20193 min read
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Stretching Hurts, but It's Always Good
For the past two weeks I've been Stretched. Pulled. Pushed. Maxed out. Several times in the past 15 days saying, "I don't want to do this...

Ryan Houmand
Nov 17, 20184 min read
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What Are You Building?
In the summer of 1988, I was getting ready to go to college. I had no scholarships and no one to pay my tuition, so I had a couple of...

Ryan Houmand
Sep 24, 20183 min read
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Bored at Work: It's a Bigger Problem Than You Think
So I was thinking about my day job. I was thinking that a lot of people seem bored there a lot of the time. Then I got to thinking about...

Ryan Houmand
Sep 10, 20186 min read
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Lead by Example - It Doesn't Mean What You Think
"I'm leading by example." That's what I heard a manager say as he excused himself for doing the work his team should be doing. But he...

Ryan Houmand
Aug 16, 20183 min read
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Why the One-Wheeled Cement Truck Never Caught On
Today, while on my morning walk, I heard a loud noise from behind me. It was a truck that was moving very slowly and it was very loud. I...

Ryan Houmand
Aug 7, 20182 min read
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