Graduation speakers, romantic comedies, and even our best friends from our freshman year of college have all, collectively, sold us a bill of goods. It turns out, you probably won’t get hit by Cupid’s arrow… Read more
Your Internal GPS Could Be The Best New Gizmo in Your Toolbox
When I was a kid in the ‘70’s, I vividly remember my father telling me that one day cars will guide us to our destinations by telling us where to turn. You know, real science… Read more
4 Things Leaders Do When They Are Nervous About Talking With Employees
Making the decision to move from a 3,200-square-foot suburban home to an 1,800-square-foot condo in the Little Italy area of downtown San Diego was not easy for my wife and me. As you might expect,… Read more
Take It Outdoors. Low-cost Big Payoff Health Benefits
If you’re old enough to know what Geritol is, you may remember their TV commercial of yesteryear that showed a hale and hearty woman farmer declaring, “When you’ve got your health, you’ve got just about everything.”… Read more
What it Takes to Be a Great Business Speaker
Every business leader I know is looking for the same thing: An edge. They all want that elusive something that will get their team and their organization ahead of — or keep them ahead of… Read more
Is Your Word Your Bond? This 5 Step Process Will Help You Find Out
You are probably familiar with that old saying that the most beautiful sound anyone can hear is the sound of their own name. Right, [your name here]? Well, the second most beautiful sound might be… Read more
How To Put An End To Chronic Complaining
I just happened to be walking past the TV not too long ago and saw the Today show’s third hour, the one where they deal with less serious topics. The anchors were talking about something… Read more
Effective Mentors Know When To Recalculate
There are few relationships as intimate in your working life as the one you create when you mentor someone. There are also few partnerships as fraught with peril or as likely to veer off course… Read more
How to Invite Collaboration without Inviting People to Live in AirPods on a Cubicle Farm
When you’re the person who makes the seating chart, you have a lot of power and also a serious responsibility to optimize a functioning workplace. There’s a whole Myers-Briggs personality chart of different needs to… Read more
4 Ways To Engage People Who Don’t Want To Be Happy
You know what to do with an underperforming employee, but what about an efficient but difficult one? I’m a strong believer that you can’t be too positive or too empathetic in the business world. Yes, a lot of places… Read more
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