Principles

At the start of my career, my first Myers-Briggs test showed that my extroversion:introversion type (defined as how I get my energy) swayed heavily to introversion. I then received the first honest feedback from my boss after I was promoted to managing people, which was that the people who worked for me wanted to know […]

Who is flying, and landing, the plane?

I have always enjoyed using the analogy of flying a plane to explain or clarify a complex or unfamiliar concept by comparing it to a familiar one (I also use ‘building a house’ at times). Some examples of flying a plane, I or others have used: Who is flying, and landing, the plane in your […]

The Wright brothers

I read a review of the book The Wright Brothers by David McCullough, author of 12 major books and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, which made me want to read the book. What caught my eye of the review was that the Wright Brothers would have fierce conversations and debates with each other, yet somehow […]

Sunrises

We have all been there, and I am sure it has happened many times … failure, not being 80% there, things just not clicking, just struggling for whatever reason, and so on. This happened to me the other day, things were just not clicking as they have done in the past. I was actually even […]

As a manager and leader, there will always come a time when a ‘tough’ conversation needs to happen. What a ‘tough’ conversation is will be based on how we each define it, who you are having the conversation with, how much experience one has in having these conversations and of course the situation of the […]

The Pitt is an American medical procedural drama television series. Each season of the series follows emergency department staff as they attempt to overcome the hardships of a single 15-hour work shift at the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center, all while having to navigate staff shortages and underfunding. Each episode covers approximately one hour of […]

The Magicians

My Thought-for-this-Week was going to be about the TV series The Pitt and feedback, but after reading Heather Cox Richardson‘s, the American Historian and Professor of History at Boston College, daily blog called ‘Letters from an American’, I thought it best to share her blog with everyone here. In her January 18, 2026 blog on […]

The pass

I do not believe that there is one form of leadership ‘style’ that we all need to have or be like. A situation may call for a certain style that may not be you. A true and confident leader will see this and at times step back to let someone else lead. This is what […]

Resolution that everyone should have It is that time of the year again where we make New Year’s resolutions. Some resolutions are big and reach for the stars, some are small, some we make and some we fall short of. If there is one resolution I suggest we all consider is to Think Big, but […]

Can’t and Won’t, but did you try

I recently read a story about a lesson one of the LA Lakers team managers learned from Pat Riley, the LA Lakers coach at the time. The team had just landed in Washington DC at 01:30AM. That evening they had a game against the Washington Bullets (now known as the Wizards). The players were to […]