Bad Things Happen
Bad things happen. Bad things have always happened. So have good things. Bad things have always gotten more notice and attention than good things. This [...]
With a little effort…
As I remember it, only a few weeks ago we were ALL focused on understanding, containing, stopping, beating, or otherwise thwarting a potential pandemic of [...]
Are you ever stupid?
Are you ever stupid? Well, I am, sometimes. Unfortunately, being stupid is easier these days than ever before. But before I get into that, let’s [...]
Ideas are cheap
Anyone can have thoughts and come up with ideas. They are both free and plentiful. How do I know? How many notebooks, file folders, WORD [...]
Why do hard things?
Rice University Football Stadium, September 12, 1962 - President John F. Kennedy put the United States and the rest of the world on notice. The [...]
Surviving The Red Queen Effect
Evolutionary biologist Leigh van Valen (1973), used the Red Queen as a metaphor for his evolutionary principle that regardless of how well a species adapts [...]
Leader, is your work worthy of contact with life’s realities?
The best leaders have withstood direct contact with life's realities. “A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticize work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities—all these are marks, not ... of superiority but of weakness.”
What’s new in your new year?
January 1 is a marker for new beginnings, an opportunity for a reset, or a clean palette upon which to write or draw the next lines of our future.
The weakness of weaknesses
In a client meeting I inquired about a mutual acquaintance I had not seen in a long time. My client said, “He plateaued early.” I [...]
Eating Crow, the art of apology
“I recently had the opportunity, responsibility and privilege of apologizing to a colleague.” “You mean you HAD to apologize to someone, right?” “Well, I didn’t [...]