DCS Engineering's agility shines in adapting to life's unexpected realities, empowering the team to balance planning with flexibility and resilience.
11 Dec 2024
11Dec2024 - The most wonderful time
Engineering leaders discuss the future of their field and how to stay engaged with the most wonderful time of the year bringing innovative solutions and exciting opportunities.
20 Nov 2024
19Nov2024 - Lincoln & the Internet
DCS Engineering founder shares insights on the true meaning of Thanksgiving, drawing parallels between Lincoln's proclamation and the value of gratitude in engineering work.
13 Nov 2024
12Nov2024 - Are they breathing?
12.Nov – Are they breathing? Hello DCS Engineering and welcome to our weekly reminder where I do my best to remind us of the purpose in the work we do together. This week I’m reflecting on the amount of work our team is tackling right now. I’m amazed at the level of competence and commitment from our team. Rising to challenges with new customers, new ways of working, and being great teammates. I’m also encouraged by the way I see our team working. Living our values and encou...
5 Nov 2024
05Nov2024 - What have we learned
Hello DCS Engineering and welcome to our weekly reminder where I do my best to remind us of the purpose in the work we do together. This week, I’m thinking about our growing team and the work we have done and the work we have in front of us in the coming year. DCS spends a TON of time, more than any place I’ve worked, on looking at sales forecasts and projecting resource needs. It’s refreshing and important and aligns to our culture of taking good care of each other. I’ve al...
30 Oct 2024
30Oct2024 - This is the way
Hello DCS Engineering and welcome to our weekly reminder where I do my best to remind us of the purpose in the work we do together. Today, I’m thinking about work. Which seems fairly obvious. Maybe less obvious, and more specifically, I’m thinking about the equation for work. In physics, W = F x d. Work is force applied through a distance. If you don’t move you don’t work. In other words, to do work, it’s more than just applying effort (Force), it’s a...
23 Oct 2024
23Oct2024 - Easy Peasy
Hello DCS Engineering and welcome to our weekly reminder where I do my best to remind us of the purpose in the work we do together. This week, I’m thinking about our value of being easy to work with. When we say easy to work with we mean we are helpful and low hassle. It doesn't mean we don’t speak up, ask good questions, and think critically about our work. In other words, being easy to work with doesn't mean being a wallflower and just going along to get along. ...
15 Oct 2024
16Oct2024 - Model Chevy
Hello DCS Engineering and welcome to our weekly reminder where I do my best to remind us of the purpose in the work we do together. Today I’m reflecting on a model that Jake and I are working on together. Jake is our 11 (almost 12!) year old. And we’ve been taking up one end of our dining room table now for the better part of six weeks working on building a 1950 Chevy Pickup model together. If you’ve ever worked on one of these models you know that there’s model glue and pai...
9 Oct 2024
09Oct2024 – Anyone Can Cook
Hello DCS Engineering and welcome to our weekly reminder where I do my best to remind us of the purpose in the work we do together. The engineering people leaders have been reading a book together called “how big things get done” and in it the author talks about Pixar planning. There’s plenty of good content and lessons to be appreciated and applied from how Pixar plans their movies. But that’s not what I want to talk about today. Instead, I wanted to share one of my f...
1 Oct 2024
01.Oct – Ain’t it Funny How Time Slips Away
Hello DCS Engineering and welcome to our weekly reminder where I do my best to remind us of the purpose in the work we do together. Welcome to October and the last quarter of 2024! Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t believe we are here already! For me, it’s a good reminder that there are just three months left to make 2024 all that it can be. So, that’s my challenge for each of us this week. Take a minute and reflect on the first nine months of the year. Where are ...
24 Sept 2024
25Sep2024 - Minding the Gap
Hello DCS Engineering and welcome to our weekly reminder where I do my best to remind us of the purpose in the work we do together. This week I’m reflecting on a book I’m reading by Bob Chapman. In this book Bob shares the story of the company he leads and their cultural rebirth. I enjoy reading the impact of a healthy culture on people in the organization. And I think each of us at DCS are rightly proud of the culture we have. Matt often talks about our culture ...
17 Sept 2024
18Sep2024 - Reliably Reliable
Hello DCS Engineering and welcome to our weekly reminder where I do my best to remind us of the purpose of the work we do together. This week I am thinking about our Be Reliable Core Value. I really like that this is one of the values we have at DCS. And being reliable is something I think we all come up short in from time to time, and yet on the whole it is so important. The reputation we have is in large part based on how I show up consistently over time. Not perfect...
9 Sept 2024
10Sep2024 - Diakonia
Hello DCS Engineering and welcome to our weekly reminder where I do my best to remind us of the purpose in the work we do together. This week I was reflecting on our 2022 offsite in San Antonio and was reminded of one of the presentations where I shared about the word diakonia. Diakonia is a Greek word. And it’s a big idea with a few different elements. It is defined as support, service, or relief. This week I really want to focus on service and the ways in whic...
3 Sept 2024
03Sep2024 - Searching for Meaning
Hello DCS Engineering and welcome to our weekly reminder where I do my best to connect our mission and values with the work our team does together. I hope you had a nice long Labor Day weekend. This week I’m reflecting on a book I recently read: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist who survived several concentration camps during WW2. His experience and research and practice before and after being imprisoned led him to conclude ...
26 Aug 2024
26Aug2024 - Learning Pains
Hello DCS Engineering and welcome to our weekly reminder where I do my best to connect our mission and values with the work our team does. This week I’m thinking about our value of being learning oriented—we are always improving. I’ve got education on my mind as we dropped our oldest of our three kids off at college last week. Man! Talk about a trade off. I’m still processing and trying to come to grips with Reagan being 700 miles away and in some else’s care. But then I remind myself t...
13 Aug 2024
13August2024 - The Power of The Environment
Hello DCS Engineering and welcome to our weekly reminder. The purpose of this weekly recording is to remind our team often why our work matters so that each of us can connect the work we are doing every day to the greater purpose, or mission, of DCS. Of course, our mission at DCS is to deliver the best customer and employee experience in the industry. And at the heart of that mission is the experience we each get to create for each other and our customers. I shared this quo...
5 Aug 2024
07Aug2024 My Broken Toe
Hello DCS Engineering! Welcome to this week’s weekly reminder. Thanks to our step challenge in the Spring, I had developed some better habits in exercise earlier this year. And then, while innocently walking across the kitchen one evening I hit a bar stool with my pinky toe. At first I thought I had just jammed it or maybe bent the toenail back. But then I looked down. And there was my pinky toe at a 90 degree angle to my other toes. This led to two months ...
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