What Impact Does Your Presence Have? (Part I)
Awhile back I was leading sessions for small company that had recently been acquired by a large multinational based in France. There were culture issues, communication issues, and because of the vast amount of change they were experiencing, fear and mistrust were rampant. Overnight this small band of technical leaders that had proudly grown their […]
You Know that “Stuff Happens” Right?
Yesterday I received an email from a potential business colleague profusely apologizing for having to reschedule our call. Her child was sick, her normal sitter out of town, and she was home beating herself up for not being available. Last week there was a time-zone snafu with another call I had scheduled and the guy […]
Giving Compounded
I can hear him and picture him, as if he were in the room with me, “You’ve gotta give, give, give before you get, get, get!” I can’t help but smile when I think of Gary Rifkin. My whole person lights up. Gary embodies these words, borrowed from Joe Charbonneau. They are words he lives […]
The Purpose of Life
“To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.” Last night my little family of three sat down together to watch the new release of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and, while it was met […]
What’s Your Mess to Own?
One of the things that makes life both magical and complicated is that there is no such thing as a perfect human being. Try as we might (and some of us are trying mightily), we mess up from time to time. We react in the moment. We say and do stupid things. It’s not just […]
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