Comfort Zones
Some good friends of mine recently contracted a case of puppy fever. For which, apparently, there is only one cure. They sent my wife and I this video a couple of days ago. It reminded me of a basic instinct we all share – human and puppy alike. We all feel a little...
The Danger That Arrives After THE Danger Passes
The last weekend in January of 2020 was a terrible one for aviation in the United States. Many people know of the helicopter crash on Sunday, January 26th that claimed the lives of NBA Hall-of-Famer Kobe Bryant, his thirteen-year-old daughter, and seven others. Most...
How to Write Anything
Frequently, I’m asked to write various things: articles, press releases, blurbs, descriptive paragraphs, quotes, and other random items of differing lengths. Occasionally, the person who requested the work is delighted by my efforts and sometimes I’m asked if I have a...
Your Most Important Meeting
Pull up your calendar and take a look at last week. How many scheduled appointments were for the benefit or convenience of other people – updates, planning meetings, conference calls, providing feedback, etc.? If you’re like most people who work with other humans, the...
How the Mouse Goes Awry: Complacency
Every brilliant strategy, each perfectly engineered process, and any flawless safety program can all be unraveled in an instant by one insidious factor: complacency. The gradual erosion of focus and attention to a task that deserves both, complacency threatens every...
One Size Does NOT Fit All
If every reward was financially based, no one would ever have children. At least not on purpose. This was the point I made to a coaching client after we completed the analysis for a new venture one of his friends planned to launch this year, with the hope that it...
BP and Boeing: Spiralling Down the Crisis Cycle
Something didn’t smell right. It was 5:45am and a British Petroleum (BP) employee was driving to work along the North Slope of Alaska near the oilfield town of Prudhoe Bay when he noticed an odd odor overpowering the smell of his heater and his truck. He pulled over...
Assigning the Big A
The tension in Tehran was palpable. It could be felt throughout every sector of the city – from the increased security at the airport all the way down to street vendors selling their wares from push carts. Just hours earlier, a number of would-be assassins had been...
Not Giving It Away Could Cost You
My wife has a top-level membership with one of the national fitness clubs and a couple of months ago she overheard other members talking about a membership benefit that was being taken away. It was a benefit that my wife had never used, had never even thought about using, and had no plans to use. […]
It’s Still Not Too Late
I should have written this post over 2 years ago. But I didn’t, so I’m writing it today.
