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Never Lose Sight of Your Best Alternative

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Choices — and the decisions we make — determine which roads we travel. Some of those decisions will be right, some wrong, and a few may require a U-turn and do-over. All of this is fine and normal. Little in life follows a straight, predictable path. Because decision-making is an imprecise science, life is never […]

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The 3-Day Rule: How to Deal with Disappointment

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For the past six weeks I have been eyeballs-deep mediating a heck of a mess. The goal — an executive and company divorce — has so many interwoven business and emotional complexities that a bearable solution tied to an volatile transition seems like a rainbow jackpot: teasing, elusive, close yet unattainable. But now we are […]

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“We Got to Play Baseball” Now in eBook Format

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978-1-61897-983-4sample As baseball’s regular season winds down, “We Got to Play Baseball” (60 Stories from Men Who Played the Game) is now available in eBook format. To download a sample, including chapter one, click the hot link to the left (978-xxx). To order, simply click either link on the final sample page. Included in the […]

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Why Worker Worries are Changing

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Results of a recent survey by Harris Interactive caught my eye due to its revealing evidence of behavioral change in the American workplace. Elizabeth Olson wrote a beautiful piece about this in Fortune and I thought the subject of her work is timely to share. When the economy went in the tank four years ago […]

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Why Politics Inflame Emotion

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As an impatient and confused America lumbers toward an uncertain eenie-meenie in November’s presidential election between two flawed candidates, ushering us along the way are flood tides of political truths, half-truths, mistruths, and laughable distortions that have raised voter emotions to an angry volatility not seen in decades. This voter intensity stems from five very […]

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Why the Olympics Survive

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As calendar pages peel away to mark the midway point of the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, as we knew it would, has been a splendidly gracious host to all 204 participating countries. Although I’m not sure why Hong Kong, which is part of China, or Puerto Rico and Guam, which are U. S. territories, compete […]

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More Bullets, More Bodies, Same Reason

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A little over thirteen years ago, ten miles west of my home two attention seeking teenagers chose a Wednesday in April to turn Columbine High School into a shooting gallery. Twelve students died, as did a heroic teacher. Two dozen more classmates were hurt. Added to the death count were both shooters, each of whom […]

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Why Bridging Silos is Getting Increasingly Tricky

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One of the more technique sensitive challenges in business is how to effectively bridge departmental silos. There are many barriers, including these eight: Politics and personal political agendas Business maturity The need to respect others’ views through different lenses Territoriality Digital underbrush Self-image Perception of others The need to thrive through stress. Politics. In business, […]

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