

Follow Your Heart
Image courtesy of Le Vent Le Cri on Flickr https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ My friend Fred looked very unhappy. He was explaining to me why he was about to make a commitment to a colleague that would require him to co-author a paper and present it...

Seven Practices for Courageous Leadership
“We, the business leaders, need to invest in the growth of our businesses without waiting for more certainty. It’s on us.” I have paraphrased a bit, but those words from Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE inspired me last week. It’s an important moment when an influential...

Getting Better At Good-Bye
Our culture honors beginnings. First loves. Grand openings. New product launches. Fresh starts. Clean slates. New beginnings. We are often not very good at endings. Bad business break-ups; messy divorces. We fear a lay-off even when we hate the job we have or losing a...

The High Cost of The Blame Game
I love reading Seth Godin’s daily blog. In a recent post, No One to Say No, he said “people are not afraid of failure, they are afraid of blame”. I couldn’t agree more. And yet, these days it seems that most people are playing The Blame Game. When something goes...