Last week was far from my best. On the same morning I received an unexpected email from a client terminating our engagement, I got a text from my Mom letting me know one of my brothers was in the hospital. All while I was...
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If you spend your day putting out fires, find the cause…you may be the fire hazard When I was a teenager, my family adopted the elderly dog of a family friend who no longer could care for her full time. We already had two cats...
If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say they need to improve their ‘elevator pitch’ or their ‘30 second commercial…’ Most of the time, they are talking about practicing their talking, and talking, and talking…and...
I love the song “Let it Go.” I’ve never seen the movie Frozen; but, I have to say that the message, like so many in ‘kids’ movies, is so relevant to adults. Now, I realize that many people who have kids have a negative...
A few years ago, I had so many requests from business leaders and owners to work with their teams to ‘teach them how to innovate’ that I wrote a template response called, “How to Get Out of Your Own Way” in which I positioned...
How much is a cohesive team that is well aligned, working in sync, and operating in support of a common goal worth to you? Is it worth, say…$26 million? For Stan Van Gundy, the coach of the Detroit Pistons basketball team (as...
Getting to “No” – When to walk away from bad business Being in business—independently or as a part of a team responsible for making the cash register ring—we can be lulled into a belief that any paid engagement is a good one....
“Jeffrey, you’ll make someone a good wife someday…” That’s a direct quote from one of the owner’s of a natural foods store I worked at for over two years when I was in high school. They loved me there at Mother Nature’s...
You’ve likely heard of the 5 stages of grief. At some point in all of our lives, we are likely to go through that process. On the other hand, I had never heard of the 5 stages of dining. That is, until my experience at the Inn...
