In line with our goal to build a thriving community, Next Jump is committed to help Next Jumpers build healthy physical habits. Together with our consistent events (in-office gym, healthy snacks and food, sleep class, etc.), we also organize a few checkpoints to help us take snapshots of our health along the journey to becoming a
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NxJumpers + Family & Friends, We have been unable to find the time to write our bi-monthly newsletter. Our team has been traveling all over the country, visiting branch offices, command bases, all to help bring “Industrial Age” organizational designs to the “Information Age”. Too much to share all in this newsletter…but some highlights: )
The word bootcamp is really important – it’s just the start, it’s not the end of the process. It’s making sure that you have enough skills to start working on yourself. That’s what’s important for me. This has given me enough knowledge and skillset to work on the rest of my backhands and the first one I started with. It’s the start of a really long journey of making yourself better.
Just last week, Tom, Greg, Meghan and I were invited to attend part of the 3 day Leadership Training program for Jamie Dimon’s (CEO of JPMC) operating committee, the top 20 leaders running JPMC. The first half of the day, Meghan and I coached this team of leaders on the Moneyball of Leadership. Responses ranged from “This is so practical, I need this help immediately” to “How can I get more of this”.
In an ordinary organization, most people are doing a second job no one is paying them for. In businesses large and small; in government agencies, schools, and hospitals; in for-profits and non-profits and in any country in the world, most people are spending time and energy covering up their weaknesses, managing other people’s impressions of them, showing themselves to their best advantage, playing politics, hiding their inadequacies, hiding their uncertainties, hiding their limitations. Hiding. We regard this as the single biggest loss of resources that organizations suffer everyday.
Last week, the Next Jump leadership team and I had the incredible privilege to partake in a three-day offsite with the top commanders and leaders of Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in Washington state.