What’s with all these rules?

Paul butler Signal Contributing Writer I’m noticing three categories of people in their response to the directives we’ve all been given during this pandemic — those who follow the rules,

Paul Butler | Your legacy of leadership

From my observation, very few leaders leave an admirable legacy — many cause divisions, and some are downright dreadful. The late John Wooden was an American basketball player and coach

Paul Butler | Conspiracy at work

As the days turn into weeks, and the weeks turn into months, and the months turn into more months — I’m just hoping this COVID-19 trial doesn’t turn into a

Paul Butler | Looking back on Labor Day

Most of us think of Labor Day as the unofficial end of summer, but the Labor Day holiday was originally created in 1894 to pay tribute to the contributions of

Paul Butler | Principled leadership

In the past few weeks we’ve all had the opportunity to watch the national convention for each of the two major political parties here in the United States — firstly

What it means when we ‘push the envelope’

Winston Churchill famously once said of the United States and Great Britain that we are just “two countries divided by a common language,” and I have so often found that

Paul Butler | Little car, big service

We have a little car that we love very much, although the one aspect of owning this little car that we’ve liked least up until recently has been the constant

Paul Butler | White fragility in the workplace

I’m presently reading a book titled “White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo and it has most certainly got me thinking. We cannot deny the shameful history of slavery in the country

Paul Butler | Insights on outsourcing

“The trouble with most accountants is, they know the cost of everything but the value of very little.” ~ Albert Einstein My wife and I recently came across a particular

Paul Butler | Theft at work

A few weeks ago, I had my bicycle stolen from outside our office building. I was aghast and annoyed. I became all puffed-up with my own self-righteousness as I convinced

Working in a mad world

We seem to be living in a mad world right now, and I am concerned this angst will carry into our cubicles, find its way onto the workbench and blow

Paul Butler: Decisions, decisions

One of the most important responsibilities as a leader is to make a decision. One of the noblest attributes as a leader is to have the humility to apologize when

Paul Butler: Lessons from fathering

Last month, much of the world celebrated Father’s Day. Did you know that Father’s Day was founded in Spokane, Washington, at the YMCA in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, who

A tale of two workers

Have you noticed there are two types of people during these strange days of COVID-19? One type of person seems to focus their attention on how this pesky pandemic affects

Paul Butler: Working in a mad world

We seem to be living in a mad world right now, and I am concerned this angst will carry into our cubicles, find its way onto the workbench and blow

Paul Butler: Pushing the envelope

Winston Churchill famously once said of the United States and Great Britain that we are just “two countries divided by a common language,” and I have so often found that

Paul Butler: What’s with all these rules?

I’m noticing three categories of people in their response to the directives we’ve all been given during this pandemic — those who follow the rules, those who partially follow the