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Harvard Business Review – The Best Leaders Encourage “Spacious Thinking”
They recommend talking with your team about their ideas instead of their tasks, making conversation the focus of some meetings instead of goals and rewarding team members who spend more time in a spacious mode.
Montana libraries lose Wi-Fi hotspots access due to funding losses
Slaven Lee, Executive Director of the Missoula Public Library, emphasized the importance of this service. “It’s actually an essential service that libraries are expected to provide… folks that were living in tents that were experiencing homelessness relied on those devices or kids who needed their homework and didn’t have internet at home,” Lee said.
Video – The Other Side of the Doors: Pat Williams – The Early Butte Years & Beyond
After 50+ years of close friendship and political partnership, these days are full of great memories … Here is an hour of Pat … a retrospective episode of “In the Crucible of Change” I filmed in 2015 … vintage Pat …
RIP my friend ….
Poplar, Montana Based West Electronics Keeps Gaining Respect At National Level During Its 50th Year
Although many people might not even know the nationally respected West Electronics is located in Poplar, the Fort Peck Tribes’ company is celebrating its 50th year of existence this year. Rodney Miller of Fort Peck Tribes Economic Development acknowledges the longevity and achievements of West Electronics. “In economic development, we don’t celebrate our successes enough. This is a great one,” Miller said of West Electronics. “It’s basically the best kept secret in America.”
Pat Williams, who safeguarded arts funding in Congress, dies at 87 – Washington Post
“People have come to believe their elected officials and their candidates are not the real McCoy,” he told the Times in 1996. “They’re not authentic, they’re scripted, talking according to the polls, voting according to next November.” He added, “It’s cancerous to our system.”
A Montana Giant Has Passed – John Patrick “Pat” Williams October 30, 1937 – June 25, 2025
May his life inspire us to work for the public good, take care of each other and remember we have much more in common than that which divides us.