The Meaning of “Work”
When I lived in New Jersey, I would take a Pan Am helicopter from Newark to LaGuardia or Kennedy, fly to Montreal or Toronto, conduct business and sales calls, then return to New York, take the chopper back to Jersey,
OK, I Have A Problem
The best groups I've ever formed or facilitated have members who are uniformly comfortable being vulnerable. My wife commented once, while sitting in with the group's permission, that it was the first such meeting she'd ever attended where no one,
Shut Up and Work
Whenever someone from a client told me that their boss was the problem, I always asked, "So, what do you plan to do about that?" About 90% of the time they told me they were powerless and afraid of being fired,
Trying
Stop trying to make money and start trying to make a difference. The latter usually provides the former, but the former seldom provides the latter.
True Failure and Success
Some people don't take action because they believe being seen as slow to act is less negative than acting and being seen as a failure. I view people who act, fail, learn, and then improve as great successes. In fact, that's
What Are You Thinking?
Major league baseball players often place weights on their bats while in the "on deck" circle preparing to go to bat. The philosophy is that the bat will be lighter without the weights, therefore their swing will be faster and
Learning How to Learn
The problem with higher education today to a large extent is that it is still mired in the prelapsarian mindset of teaching content. In an age of instant investigation via any number of technologies, people are still asked to memorize
Enough Is Enough
Anything taken to an extreme is usually dysfunctional. Barry Goldwater, Republican candidate for president, lost the election by saying things like this: "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice." He said that in his convention acceptance speech in 1964.
Good intentions are not synonymous with good advice
People you trust and who truly may have your best interests in mind are not always capable of providing you with good advice. That’s because they haven’t been in your position. They haven’t experienced what you’re experiencing. And they don’t
You Came to Hear Me Speak, I Didn’t Come Here to Listen to You Speak
A guy came up to me during a session break yesterday to try to nitpick a statistic I use which is unequivocally true. I told him there were two ways to look at it, right and wrong, and I was
