President Jared Campbell called the meeting to order and led us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Matt Palcher led us in a thoughtful prayer.
GUESTS: We welcomed Randall Leonard as a guest of Rick Beyer.
CLUB ANNIVERSARIES: Gary McEachen, 30 years, Feb 22nd & Sally Bibb, 30 years, Feb 22nd
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Our Greeters were the members of our Rotary Club Foundation Board.
President Jared presented us with a District wide challenge “8 in 8 Membership Challenge”. We are “competing” with other District Clubs as to which club(s) can bring in 8 new members in the next 8 weeks, starting in March.
DISTRICT CONFERENCE April 24 & 25 to be held at our Rotary Youth Camp with a special concert on April 24th ! We had two flyers on our tables, one for the District Conference, starting Friday night and continuing Saturday morning. One District - One Weekend – One Powerful Impact. Saturday’s Grand Finale will be the 25th Anniversary Shoes for Orphan Souls’ Shoe Roll Call. This will feature future Rotary International President, Larry Lunsford, of the KCMO – Plaza Club. The other flyer highlighted Friday (4/24/26) night’s “Jukebox Heroes - Tribute to the 60’s-80’s” entertainment with Kansas City’s very own Rock Orchestra. This event’s location will be 1901 NW Blue Parkway, Lee’s Summit, MO 64065 (at Unity Village) beginning at 7pm with the doors opening at 6 pm.
Happy Bucks: Several Club members shared their good tidings, good news and even a humorous joke.
PROGRAM: TOPIC: “SHIFT HAPPENS”. Tom Woolwine introduced his longtime childhood best buddy from growing up in Pratt, Kansas, Dennis Hodges. Dennis is a growth and customer experience leader (consultant) who helps startups, established companies or not-for-profits navigate growth and change by reconnecting strategy with real-world execution. Dennis has helped several companies and organization get back on track. Dennis is well traveled. Recently he has relocated to Kansas City from Miami and prior to that had a nine year stint with a Budapest, Hungary company, navigating business and political boundaries in Eastern Europe.
Dennis’s presentation caused us to sit back and reconsider life through a different lens or perspective. First, Every person in this room is dealing with some shift. Shift Happens - Things Change in our businesses and families (employment changes, customers/clients come & go, etc). Unfortunately, and usually the case, Shift doesn’t send a calendar invite (it just happens). The KEY is How We React. Many times individuals or businesses either Resist the change or Overreact to the change or just Freeze. For example, businesses may overexpand or get complacent or lose discipline in their actions. With change we and/or businesses need to be Resilient. What can happen with change? – We lose clarity to see the whole picture. How we should respond? Answer: Recognize, Regulate and Respond. As a “case study” we saw a short clip from the movie Apollo 13, in which on a very short time frame with limited resources (whatever was available inside the space capsule) NASA had to determine how to fit a square peg into a round hole for a carbon dioxide scrubber (or otherwise lose the Apollo 13 crew). Recognizing reality doesn’t mean you necessarily like it. It just means you stop arguing with it. [Don’t argue with reality!] From a business and/or family perspective, your team mirrors your mood (i.e. Regulate yourself). Responding doesn’t always mean doing more. Sometimes it means doing something differently. In short: Recognize what’s real. Regulate yourself. Respond intentionally. Dennis shared several business application scenarios or examples from various charitable or business enterprises. There were questions from the group, one in particular dealt with A-I taking jobs. Dennis’s response was to reframe the statement to A-I can take your job if you can’t use A-I. A-I can free you up to higher activities. Now with A-I it’s important to be able to formulate the proper question or line of questions or inquiries.
As an unrelated side note, Dennis noted that there was a good New York Times article today on how Kansas City was able to land three* FIFA teams home bases. It is an interesting article available on the internet. As I googled it: Story by The Athletic: How Kansas City wooed World Cup giants to its base camps: BBQ, padel, “KC Kind”. [Since then we have added a fourth team 3 in Kansas City Argentina, England Netherlands & 1 in Lawrence, Algeria.]
UPCOMING EVENTS: BRING A GUEST !
Feb 26th No lunch meeting – 4th Thursday Social at Aixois -55th & Brookside Blvd, KCMO
March 5th Securing the Youth Camp's Future with Sally Bibb and others
March 12th No meeting – Big 12 Tournament
March 19th Julia Liupanono & Muhle Diamini “Being an International Student in the US.”
Jared Campbell wrapped up the meeting with an Act of Kindness suggestion of providing coloring books to children’s hospitals for the kids to occupy themselves and the Four Way Test.
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