The Low-Hanging Fruit Dilemma
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. -John F. Kennedy “Pick the low-hanging […]
War Games
Would you rather watch than read? Click here for the 8 minute video. The war in Ukraine has left us all feeling some combination of sadness, anger, and hopelessness. It […]
Are You Playing the Wrong Game?
Watch the matching video. One of the hardest things to gauge in a new organization is what is expected. At the grandest level, we call this culture. But the broadness […]
Less is More in Strategy
Prefer to watch rather than read? Here’s a short 6-minute video. Gardening Sometime early in the pandemic I decided I wanted to have a flower garden. I began planting things. […]
Go With Your Gut?
My Friend Holly swims at a public pool. Mothers often bring their 6- or 7-year-old sons into the women’s locker room, where, as you might imagine, women are undressed. Periodically, […]
Binary Bias — Video Preview
It’s natural. Humans see the world in binary terms. Good/Evil, Dark/Light, Right/Left. We are simply hard-wired that way. That tendency served us as well in caveman days, when we needed […]
Less is More in Decision-Making Too
Everyone knows the challenge of shopping on line. It seems always to lead to an endless series of options, and the more you scroll the more they all begin looking […]
Get Awesome Coaching Without a New Coach!
We revere great coaches in our culture – whether in sports, politics or even business. But we almost never address what conditions allow a coach to thrive — that is, […]
Did You Make the Right Decision?
There is a very real and important distinction between how people make important, strategic decisions both in life and business. On the one hand, there are those who reach decisions […]
Quit Early and Often
From the time we are children we are told that persistence is a virtue and quitting is for losers. And in some cases this is definitely true. You will never […]