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In my blogs, I almost always talk about leadership. This time, though, I need to talk about Anthony Bourdain. No, not his suicide. The Internet is clogged with that part; much of it, sadly, is dust in the wind in terms of truly unraveling the darkness that can suffocate someone’s will to live. It is the other part of Anthony …
Don Imus is a conflicted soul. He made his living – 50 years of it — as one of the most successful and notorious radio shock jocks. Abrasive, unvarnished, crude, cranky, indulgent and self-absorbed. Juxtaposed with that dark image is a man who also used his fortune to buy — and for years personally operate — a 4,000-acre cattle ranch for children …
I work with transitions all the time — people weighing job changes, a different career, edging toward retirement, the sale or purchase of a business, the launch of a venture. I generally welcome transitions — especially purposeful and intentional ones — in that they burn our platform and summon us to consider our real worth, a more ideal path for …
This time of the year is often governed by two gears — Reverse and Drive. It’s a time to take account for what was done, celebrated or suffered; it’s also a time we quickly transition our energy toward the year ahead. We shift gears this time of year. Most often, for a business leader, this exercise is in …
I had gone with a friend of mine to see his young son learn how to skateboard. The skateboard park scene was as you might imagine — mostly teens and some young adults exercising their own acts of defiance against the forces of gravity and friction. Pretty impressive displays. And then I noticed this one fellow who had all the …
horror vacui Nature abhors a vacuum. The physics around filling an atmospheric void gives us thunder, wind, keeps dentists and surgeons tidy, and has gratefully displaced brooms in favor of Dirt Devils and Dysons. Vacuum can work for you. Including at your next management team meeting. In human psychology, we have an arousal quotient or requirement, which fuels an appetite for …
By now, most everyone has cemented an opinion—informed or ill-informed, reasoned or shrill as it may be—about what happened on that United flight last week. Perhaps now, if the frothing has subsided a bit, it might be worth reflecting on what was really in play and at stake for anyone else in leadership. Whether your ire is centered on the …
I’m not a very good fly fisherman. Actually, I’m terrible. The only time I seem to ever hook into one of those finned rascals is when I am under the watchful eye of some grizzled, taciturn fishing guide, who spends most of the time untangling me from the bushes behind me. Nonetheless, I am a stubborn, undeterred soul. So much …
How does getting a degree in physics and aerospace engineering prepare you to own a neighborhood barbecue restaurant? It doesn’t. It’s way harder than that. Yet, if you want a great example of what it means to have your business mean more than its product, pull up a chair. Matt Cuff had a good gig as a design engineer with …
Got a minute? Try this. For one minute (maybe have someone else tell you when that minute is up, because you almost inevitably will cut it short!) think of one thing. One object, an experience,. a person — not a problem to solve. Go… What was so hard about that? If you’re like most, you had to fend off distractions …
