Discerning Insights About Leadership

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

The Least One

Discerning Insights About Leadership

November 30, 2023

I love the holiday season. I love the food. I typically enjoy some extra time off from work and a slightly elevated social calendar with family and friends. However, as Thanksgiving approached this year, I happened to find myself ...

Dumpster Fire

Discerning Insights About Leadership

November 27, 2023

I love dumpsters. I haven’t dived into this one with my therapist yet, but I am sure there’s a lot behind it. Every so many years, I step on a toy or stare at a broken piece of furniture and decide I need to rent a dumpster. This ...

Permit to Change

Discerning Insights About Leadership

November 17, 2023

My eldest has always been a great kid. Polite, intelligent, gregarious - Annie has always been a delight. But for as long as I imagined what she might become as an adult, I have never been able to imagine her behind the wheel of a...

Prophetic Prudence

Discerning Insights About Leadership

November 13, 2023

For as long as I can remember, I’ve never had a problem expressing my thoughts. In fact, some might say I have never had an unexpressed opinion. This can be helpful in parts of my professional life when other leaders invite me to ...

Saints Alive

Discerning Insights About Leadership

November 06, 2023

My wife and I had three criteria when deciding on names for our children. First, the name needed to be classic or stately in the highly likely scenario that the child becomes the president of the United States. Second, the first a...

Powerball

Discerning Insights About Leadership

October 16, 2023

I never play the lottery, but I have always believed I should win the jackpot. Given that long-held belief and the fact that the purse was in the billions, I thought it was time to buy a ticket. Almost immediately after the ticket...

Just to Be Close

Discerning Insights About Leadership

October 06, 2023

The day after our son Peter was diagnosed with brain cancer, a kind woman at our parish texted my wife to introduce us to Blessed Carlo Acutis. Mary Bea promised her family would be praying through his intercession and encouraged ...

Perspective on Aisle 9

Discerning Insights About Leadership

September 29, 2023

I once took a personality profile that aptly described the way I look at the world as “one giant game of Frogger, where you constantly look to navigate around obstacles and barriers.” It’s true in my work, it’s definitely true in ...

Tactile Tactic

Discerning Insights About Leadership

September 25, 2023

The start of school is a challenging time for most families. Everyone is getting back into routines, and children are adjusting to outputting different energy, in different settings, with different adults. Despite our best laid pl...

A kNACk for Change

Discerning Insights About Leadership

September 15, 2023

Several years ago, my archbishop asked if I would be willing to serve on the National Advisory Council (NAC) for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Often described as “the Church in miniature,” the council was estab...

Family Ties

Discerning Insights About Leadership

September 08, 2023

Twenty years ago, I studied abroad in Italy and was able to meet my grandmother’s first cousin and her daughter. Though my grandmother never met her cousin, it was as if they were identical twins separated at birth – their face, t...

Rerouted

Discerning Insights About Leadership

September 01, 2023

This year, my favorite work trip to Rome was made even more special. My niece was going to begin her study abroad experience in Florence the same week and I, being the upstanding uncle I am, offered to accompany her and help her s...

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