What do you want to know about Duke?

Wouldn’t it be nice if we all had little cheat sheets we could pass along that would help speed along the ‘knowing’ of ourselves to others. The piece would be like a resume of personal interests. Something that cuts through the surface stuff and shares what might only be picked up through a year of close friendship. If everyone had only one page, they would have to sort through all what could be shared and extract just what is core to what is important. Here goes mine:

• I love learning on a many levels
• In the past 4 years I have had a ball growing in the Lord. This side of a tragedy that wrecked my family, I called out for help and He delivered and continues to deliver in so many dimensions. I place this new relationship above all in significance.
• I love to learn what few others know. To bring a thought, a metaphor, a tool, a concept from another company, another field, another era, and apply it at the hospital I work. If it works then share it with the world.
• I enjoy sharing
• I believe knowledge that is only received is a waste. That is why they call the Dead Sea dead. It only receives--it never gives out. I have learned the concept of “knowledge management” or a collective learning in an organization and do my best to get others to join in. My professional organization gets a “dare to share” tool or piece once a week; my hospital subscribers get a ‘weekly reader’ of the same; there are two websites that post my learnings; there are some ‘thinkers’, I call them, that love to stay on the fun side of creativity that I reciprocate leanings with; and all my past employments are channels to receive and share knowledge with.
• One of the most gratifying parts of my life is giving. I get to minister to those who are believing God for the healing of their marriage though daily devotionals sent over e-mail. I participate with a group in the rehabilitation of fellow left a quadra-amputee from meningitis, I’m invested in a couple who minister to ladies coming out of prison.
• Professionally, I work as the 30-weight oil for cultural and process change at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. My role is to make positive change happen in an accelerated, smoother fashion. Harnessing what I’ve learned and splicing it in to help a culture whose goal is to eliminate Cancer. Make it history. And if something works, I try to get it out to as many hospitals as possible.
• Family-wise I have one wife (by covenant) and three children whom I dearly love. We home-school our children. The oldest son is at Texas A&M. Just thinking of my family makes my heart warm. Some of my neatest learnings come from and through my children.

If my life were an open book, I believe these would be the cliff notes. Want to see something revealing? Write down yours. Duke covnt4/duke