excuses

If you have not seen the HBO documentary titled ‘The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley’, you need to watch it (https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/the-inventor-out-for-blood-in-silicon-valley). The story is about Elizabeth Holmes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes) and her rise and fall in Silicon Valley due to her ‘deception’. I watched the show a number of years ago and it has stayed […]

Kindness can be the greatest gift that you can give a person. Especially when they are not expecting it.

Thank you Mark Friedman and Howie Cohen On January 28th, I had a phone call with Mark Friedman, Ph.D., an executive coach. The call was scheduled for 45-60 minutes but we ended up speaking for 2-hours. He not only gave me 2-hours of his own time, but he also gave me some great guidance and […]

Dare Greatly, Teddy Roosevelt

It is not the critic who counts; The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, Who strive Los valiantly; Who errs, who comes short again and again; Who knows great enthusiasms; Who spends himself in a worthy cause; Who at the best knows in the end The triumph of high achievement, […]

When was the last time you tried something new?

A couple of years ago, I signed up for my first sprint triathlon which took place 6-months after I signed up. I know I will not have much trouble with the cycling or running sections (it may not look pretty but I will get through it) but it is the swimming section that concerns me […]

Practice, practice, practice

With winter upon us, people getting ready to receive EoY feedback and new resolutions in the works, it is time for each of us to decide how we want to change, improve and/or start afresh. As you think about the changes, improvements or just fresh ‘restarts’ you want to make, do not forget the value […]

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others – Lewis Carroll

Even when one is going through their own challenges, it feels great to do something for others. #thoughtfortheweek

How a small act of kindness can go a long way

I see this person just about every morning. We do not know each other by name but we give our casual hellos and we each have our own regular morning routine. The other day, as I was getting ready to do my next ‘regular morning routine’, out of nowhere, he came over and gave me […]

One of the best pieces of counterintuitive advice I have ever received

I have started reading Robert Glazer’s Friday Forward blog and this week’s blog reminded me of the best counterintuitive advice I ever received. (I also share Robert’s blog below). About 25 years ago, when management / leadership style was all and purely about results, numbers, profit, working people hard and giving people a hard time […]

Less, but Better

Dieter Rams (born 20 May 1932 in Wiesbaden, Hessen) is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the Functionalist school of industrial design. His unobtrusive approach and belief in “less but better” design generated a timelessness nature in his products and have influenced the design of many products, which […]

There is no ‘I’ in team … but there is an ‘I’ in win!

Michael Jordan, one of my three favorite basketball players of all time, and in his mid-50’s is still the benchmark for all professional basketball players, had said the quote above. When I first heard it, I really did not understand what he meant by it … did he really mean to say that it is […]