General Advice
Lessons Learned About Faulty Assumptions
2006 was an intriguing year. As I worked with people from virtually all walks of life, I took a lot of notes, listened to thousands of conversations, and realized that most of us carry around big sets of faulty assumptions that make our work and our lives more complicated and difficult than they need to […]
Continue ReadingThe Practice of Listening. Slow Down, Be Quiet
Here’s counter-culture advice in our high-speed, instant-message, do-it-now culture. Slow down. Be Quiet. I met with a woman yesterday who was intent on selling her company’s services to me and I was amazed at how quickly she spoke and how little she heard of what I wanted. Although I wanted to tell her to shut […]
Continue ReadingA New Year Can Mean a Fresh Start For You
By now you’re back at work after holiday celebrations. Perhaps you took some time to reflect over the break. Maybe you summarized for yourself what worked and what didn’t in 2014. Chances are you made a few mental notes about what you’d like to change in 2015. Resolutions are a traditional feature of a New […]
Continue ReadingOn the importance of perspective and the truth that you find
This first business day after Thanksgiving, I’m struck as I often am, by the importance of perspective and the truth that you find what you’re looking for. Some people are upbeat about the holiday just past and the things they are grateful for. Others have little interest in talking about what’s good when there is […]
Continue ReadingThe Wisdom of Corrective “pruning” in Life
I had the grueling experience over the weekend of chopping back a wild tree that was crowding my garage and whose branches draped across the roof all summer, scraping up a storm. As I labored and cursed the wicked thing, I couldn’t help but think how much easier it would have been for the previous […]
Continue ReadingExisting ways of thinking are not good enough
Though not an early adopter by any stretch of the imagination, I’m looking forward to using this medium to talk about confidence–backbone–what it is, the skills that build it, and what it can accomplish in the world. I’ll also deal with things that are not confidence, though sometimes they masquerade as such. Things like ignorance, […]
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