The Undivided Life Blog

“You think you’re something special, College Boy? You think you’re better than me?”

I wanted to respond, but two things were holding me back.

First, I was being choked against the wall, and I was st...

As I reinforced a fence this weekend to make it miniature donkey-proof (yup, that’s what I was doing), I recalled bits and pieces of a Robert Frost poem called Mending Wall that we studied in middle s...

While raising seven young kids, including an infant, and tackling our family's daily medical needs, we’ve added a new layer of adventure to the mix—miniature Donkeys.

Introducing Daisy and Tater.

In...

I will never forget my disappointment in November 2018, when I watched my Fighting Texas Aggie football team throw an interception and lose to LSU near the end of the fourth quarter. I clicked the TV ...

It Takes a Strong Team to Weather the Storms

The lights flickered in the house as I was gearing up for a great Tuesday start to the week after Memorial Day. My wife, kids, and visiting niece were all...

The first time I read Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization, I was struck by the practical ways an organization can improve its overall culture as it moves from...

With the recent FTC ruling to ban noncompetes nationwide, some organizations are scrambling to find other ways to scare current and former employees from operating in the same industry. The biggest sh...

“I recently learned about the CARPOOL program that is being developed by Jeff Schiefelbein. This program is going to fail. I am 200% against this project, and I urge you to join me in putting a stop t...

“My kid never gets hurt. Never.”

I was squinting at this woman at the local playground as she made this proclamation and stared intently at me while I held one of my crying kids. I had six of my seve...

Instead of being just like you, do you think I could be just like me?

We were a few minutes down the road, and my daughter Lorelei had just cooled down after throwing a fit back at the house. She had...

Creating a great company culture is simple. That is what makes it so difficult.

Many people are curious about company culture, wondering how they, too, can create a dynamic workplace. They clearly se...

It's easy to get excited about the intentional culture-building concepts we share at Undivided Life, only to be brought back down to the reality of your lack of status or feelings of insignificance at...

I’m consistent with the kids. I treat each of them differently.

Leading a family with seven kids is like leading a large company.

My kids range in age from ten to just one month. If you spend an hou...

A Step-by-Step Guide for Consuming the World’s Largest Land Animal and Leading Culture Change in Your Organization

In a recent conversation about culture change at a large organization, someone offer...

We did something impossible this past weekend.

Less than two weeks after my wife gave birth to our seventh child, we moved across town with a long U-Haul truck and FIVE full moving PODS, and then we ...

“You have seven kids!! I can barely handle two.”

My wife and I hear comments like this daily, and I think there is a lot of truth in the sentiment that it is difficult to keep up with two children. F...

I’ve had many successes, spanning an incredible range of life stages and arenas.

I’ve launched successful companies in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, played a key role in the turnaround o...

Business owners and executives often compliment themselves on creating “pretty good” company cultures with policies and organizational norms that work well. They share how employees view their policie...