Discerning Insights About Leadership

Our CEO Daniel Cellucci's weekly email, the DIAL: Discerning Insights About Leadership.

My Bad

Discerning Insights About Leadership

October 28, 2024

My first job was as a waiter at a retirement facility. I was 15 years old, and I was an instant success with the residents, with the exception of one: 94-year-old Mr. Stern. He didn’t notice my incredible, youthful smile, nor was ...

The Loss in Winning

Discerning Insights About Leadership

October 21, 2024

As a Philadelphian, you occasionally experience the highs of professional or collegiate sport victories. But if you are of a certain age, you mostly come to expect heartbreaking defeat as a part of life. We get close; we get red f...

Q&A

Discerning Insights About Leadership

October 14, 2024

This season is always full of travel and presentations for me. Recently, I was recounting to my bride a talk I gave and how many great questions there were from the participants. I may have also drifted into some boasting about ho...

Capture the Flag

Discerning Insights About Leadership

October 07, 2024

Last week, I did the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my entire life: I attempted to coach a handful of fifth grade boys in flag football. By the fifth grade, most kids are starting to play tackle, and if you are playing flag footb...

To Die With

Discerning Insights About Leadership

September 30, 2024

Friends of mine recently received an award from the Little Sisters of the Poor at a local gala. I showed up to the event knowing a little about the sisters’ ministry in caring for the elderly, but frankly, I was looking to make an...

All You Can Eat

Discerning Insights About Leadership

September 23, 2024

If you and I ever find ourselves in proximity to a buffet line, I’ve got news for you: I am judging you. I am assessing the way you move through that line and how it is impacting me getting my food. This comes from my general impa...

Right and Just

Discerning Insights About Leadership

September 16, 2024

Sometimes I really dislike the duties of my job. I am in love with the mission, but sometimes this job (and I imagine a lot of other leadership positions) can feel like a series of dueling doors, where regardless of which one you ...

Listless

Discerning Insights About Leadership

September 09, 2024

Inspired by the new year and a good retreat, I decided back in January to go cold turkey (again) on social media. I was surprised at how quickly I was able to stop scrolling until summer vacation came and I got bored. Then I got h...

Spirit and Life

Discerning Insights About Leadership

September 02, 2024

Several years ago, I attended a leadership seminar where the speaker stated that guiding principles were everything. She went on further to say that building strong relationships was secondary, and not a close second. I had a stro...

The Office

Discerning Insights About Leadership

August 26, 2024

I had only two hopes for our future “forever home,” a master bathroom and some space, no matter how small, that could be toy-free. I imagined extravagant bookshelves, a beautiful desk, a comfy armchair. Maybe there would be a pipe...

Claimant

Discerning Insights About Leadership

August 19, 2024

It took less than a month for our new driver to test the insurance coverage. Thankfully, it was a minor scratch on a parked car at the Target where our daughter works. Annie was running late for work and as she attempted to straig...

Steady as He Grows

Discerning Insights About Leadership

August 12, 2024

I have reached the point in life when my doctors are increasingly younger than I am. At last year’s physical, my whippersnapper of a general practitioner wanted to make sure I was “keeping my body moving as I get older.” I turned ...

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