Category: Inspiration

Reading Time: < 1 minute When reflecting on my life and how grateful I am with all our blessings, I can’t stop thinking about leadership and what it means to each of us.  Leadership, the ability to inspire others by eliciting their support and aid towards achieving a goal is a contact sport.  We can not sit

Reading Time: < 1 minute If asked what work of fiction is most identified with the Holiday Season, most would immediately say Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.   To the casual reader, Ebenezer Scrooge is portrayed as a despicable miser who does not well represent the private sector.    But it may be that a more thoughtful reading

Reading Time: < 1 minute We are less than two months away from New Year’s Day and the resolutions we’ll make (but probably not keep).   If you want to escape this vicious cycle, try starting in November with a 30 day technique that will dramatically enhance your chances of success.  But don’t take my word for it. 

Reading Time: < 1 minute The management practices of successful companies are often touted as ground breaking. Some like Zappos claim to have abandoned traditional management structures altogether in favor of “holacracy”.   Yahoo at one time allowed large numbers of employees to work from home (although the latest CEO Marissa Mayer quickly put an end

Reading Time: < 1 minute  “It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend of his faults. If you are angry with a man, or hate him, it is not hard to go to him and stab him with words; but so to love a man that you cannot bear to

Reading Time: < 1 minute The past 150 years has seen more innovation and invention since people started, well,  innovating and inventing.   But what made all this possible?   If you’re curious about how the world you live in came to be, check out this two page executive summary of a wonderful new book  “How We Got

Reading Time: < 1 minute Many of us can think of a chance encounter with someone that took an interest in us that led to a new job, career, spouse or destiny that we weren’t looking for or didn’t expect. Instead of waiting for that “big break” , why not make it happen.  Check out this short article from Forbes that

Reading Time: < 1 minute It can be hard to give the young people in your life advice because of the age difference.  So here’s some advice from a younger person for his peers that I wish someone had given me.   Pass on 20 things I Should have known at 20  to someone with more years ahead than

Reading Time: < 1 minute The unexpected death of iconic comedian Joan Rivers brought the usual torrent of information from celebrity sources that either did not know her, wish they did, wished they didn’t …or wished she knew them! One of the more thoughtful  tributes to Rivers came from someone who actually knew her well.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Strategic intent is key to the success of any business.   A great (and cautionary) literary exposition of this is Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.”  In this timeless classic, the CEO  (Captain Ahab) clearly had the requisite strategic intent to succeed;  but in the end failed utterly not only in his quest