by Michael Devers | Oct 14, 2018 | Sunday Notes
Rosemary Lawlor was a newlywed, but was she just a newlywed? In the “Strike an Intentional Tone” section from his MasterClass video on writing, Malcolm Gladwell begins with a quote from the first chapter on the “Limits of Power” section in his book, David and Goliath....
by Michael Devers | Sep 30, 2018 | Sunday Notes
In board rooms, war rooms, and locker rooms everywhere, a common problem exists. Leadership conceives of a plan, and then communicates the plan down through various levels of management until it ultimately reaches the people – the boots on the ground – who have the...
by Michael Devers | Sep 23, 2018 | Sunday Notes
Raise your hand if you LOVE to reach an automated attendant when contacting a company’s customer service number with a problem. I don’t see very many hands raised, and most of them are standing in the back, close to the exits. There are very few things more despised...
by Michael Devers | Sep 16, 2018 | Sunday Notes
The 2008 global financial meltdown. Hurricane Katrina. Pearl Harbor. 9/11. These are only a few examples of disasters that might have been significantly less horrific, and in some cases maybe even outright prevented, if people had listened to those trying to sound the...
by Michael Devers | Sep 9, 2018 | Sunday Notes
Charles Schulz – the creator of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the whole Peanuts gang – taught me how to read when I was three-years-old. These were the days when most people got their news from a combination of the daily newspaper and Walter Cronkite. Every...