Saturday afternoon. A South Florida rainstorm pounds my garden, and I lounge in the shelter of my home, flipping through the pages of the Wall Street Journal Magazine that just arrived. Settle on a story about two designers and their house in the foothills of the Atlas mountains
My friend Phil and I tease our colleague Jean. You seem to be working harder than ever, we chuckle during a chat with Jean. She just switched from a grueling full-time corporate leadership role to a part-time position. Jean has been on the road more than ever, it seems. Moving faster, faster.
I jot this down on my birthday. Feels fitting. Spent a few fine days last week with some of the amazing peeps I get to support. Every single one of them works in a high-pressure Fortune 500 culture. And every single one of them
I think of Michael E. Porter as “the Harvard strategy guy. “ Porter’s research since the 1980s has influenced how a generation of CEOs define strategy and make strategic decisions. So I was curious to stumble on
I was dazzled. A couple of years ago, sitting in the glorious Berlin Philharmonie on a Sunday night, listening to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra tear into Faure, Schoenberg, Ravel. Dazzled most by rising-star-composer
The pressure is brutal. To know, to have answers, to offer fresh ideas. Chances are, you have been hired for your job because you will offer insight and solutions. I love the moment when I know. When I have no
A greeting is a marvelous blast of social energy, right? Well, it ought to be. Reality is a lot more complex. How are you? This simple question creates instant social dilemmas. Dan Oropesa, formerly the Relationship Manager at my firm, Influens,
I spent an electrifying day at the Future of Leadership Salon in Duesseldorf last week. 60 visionary corporate leaders and change agents, eager to create more human workplaces. 6 invited thought-leaders.
Tis the week after the political blow-up about the separation of families at the US/Mexican border. Public discourse got more heated than it had already been. Even if you tried to avoid the coverage, chances are you
Somehow I didn’t think it would happen this year. I felt a little distracted. Didn’t even have time to think about World Cup Soccer. Didn’t figure it would kick in. And then it did. Kick in. Again. The fever. When you grow up in a soccer nation the fever