“If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.” That admonition from childhood might still ring in your ears. You learned that if you wanted to...
One idea that is starting to become very clear in the minds of many of the senior business leaders with whom I work is simply this – the most sustainable...
A few times a week, I get requests for advice on negotiating a job offer. They usually start like this: I’m in the recruiting process, and I just...
Despite being famously grammar-challenged, Master Yoda has a thing or two to teach us about being a powerful presenter. No, it’s not sharing...
In recent years Stanford University's BioDesign program has sent teams of engineering, business, and medical students into hospitals, hoping to identify medical...
Have you ever seen one of Frank Gehry’s buildings? They catch your eyes with their unusual contours and their unique materials. Gehry has been dubbed by...
The room got quiet. It was 4:49PM on Sunday, August 5th, and Usain Bolt was about to compete the 100m Final. The starting gun fired, and I couldn’t...
Who’s been a positive influence in your life? What are the qualities and characteristics you would use to describe that person? What kind of impact...
If you had to name one person on your team at work who needs to change their behavior to make things run more smoothly, who would it be? Is your...
My favorite South Park episode is called “Gnomes.” Here’s the gist of the story, as I remember it. Tweek’s underpants are being stolen. He has only one pair left...
In 1907, an American engineer named Theodore Cooper was leading a project to build the Quebec Bridge. Once complete, it would be one of the...
We all evolve. Change is an absolute. Life is about mental, physical and spiritual growth. The more introspection, the faster there is growth. Sometimes we...
