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 [...]
This is your life, and your story
This Is Your Life was an American reality documentary series broadcast on NBC radio, and then television, from 1948 to 1961. In the program, the [...]
A shortcut isn’t and quick fixes aren’t and don’t
Dr. Louis Binstock once said, “Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.” Allow me to translate: [...]
There is still no antidote for uncertainty
It’s February! The new year is up and running, so we had better be, as well! After listening to more than a few executives during [...]
Resistance or a third-order linear partial differential equation?
"Leadership involves leading." I read that somewhere and it's true enough, but leadership also involves implementing change. Sometimes (often?) change has a way of generating resistance [...]
You are the first domino in the line
"When one thing, the right thing, is set in motion, it can topple many things." It’s a simple concept: focus on what matters most in [...]
Strategic choice
At a basic level strategy answers two questions: where will we play and how will we win? Should everyone in our business know those answers? [...]
Your scary future, Part 7; how do you find comfort in an uncomfortable world?
Every generation seems to feel that it has the most complex and challenging of times. They’re no more or less right than we are. We [...]
Your scary future, Part 6; flexing and all that jazz
V.U.C.A. world or not, we still have to make a difference. We still have to contribute. We still have to deliver value. And that means [...]