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Articles, book reviews and thoughts on executive coaching, communications and the world of business.
Marines Add Mindfulness to Their Arsenal
Mindfulness is one way of talking about the leadership trait of being completely in the present moment and powerfully observant of what's in front of your nose. I center much of my coaching work around [...]
Are We in a Post-Productive Economy?
Economist Robert Gordon says that economic growth in the United States is over, at least for the foreseeable future. You can read his essay here. Kevin Kelly thinks he's wrong and responds with this post [...]
What’s the Cost if You or Your Managers Are Jerks?
Great infographic from Inc. on the cost of bad bosses. Not just incompetent, but who act like jerks. You can see it at Inc.com in Maeghan Ouimet's column.
The Anatomy of Innovation
I post a lot about the tension between creativity and execution and the drum I always pound is that ideas are nothing without execution. Innovation is the skilled execution of a new and workable idea, [...]
From Masters of the Universe to Eunuchs: Tom Wolfe on Traders and Quants
A great and very long article in Newsweek from novelists and new-journalist Tom Wolfe on how the outrageous hero of his 1987 Bonfires of the Vanities "couldn't get arrested today" for what he did then, [...]
Commencement Speeches That You Should Hear
From Maria Popova, 5½ Timeless Commencement Speeches to Teach You to Define Your Own Success. Five great videos that are worth taking a minute to watch. David Foster Wallace "Twenty years after my own graduation, [...]
Innovative Business Models: Andrew Sullivan
This week, blogger Andrew Sullivan announced, with some trepidation, that he was taking his Daily Dish blog private (it's currently carried by Newsweek/The Daily Beast) as a subscription-only site. You can read his reasons for [...]
The Four Revolutions of a Leader:
Don’t make resolutions. Make revolutions. As you head into a bright shining New Year, you could do well to spend some time making resolutions. You could write a list of things you feel you ought [...]
Jogging Your Memory: Can Exercise Make You Smarter?
Gretchen Reynolds in The New York Times offers a compelling look at the science behind the theory that exercise makes us smarter and finds that it's not only true today but may be part of [...]
The Prepared Mind and the Hooligan Mind
One day in the 1990’s, a group of psychologists from a Dutch university decided to go to a soccer match. The match attracted quite a crowd and they were forced to park a mile away [...]
What’s a Dog For? Maria Popova on John Homans
(Photo from the book) If you don't know about Maria Popova, you should. Her site, Brain Pickings, is filled with great writing on art, literature, design and ideas, a great place to go to make [...]
Building a Culture of Transparency
When I talk about companies that are "branded to the bone" I mean companies that are true at every touchpoint, where the things leadership says are as true at the front door of the building [...]
The Super Relaxed and Happy Zen of Bill Murray
I'm starting to collect Bill Murray interviews the way some people collect baseball memorabilia or polished gemstones. In a great interview with Dave Itzkoff of the New York Times, Murray was running late so he [...]
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret of Empathy
Maria Konnikova has a fascinating coming out book titled Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. In a post on Aeon Magazine, she discusses a little understood of the characters amazing powers of detection. Not [...]
Will the Internet Transform Storytelling?
The amazing thing about the Internet today is that anyone can create and distribute content, in words, pictures, sounds and all three together. And anyone doing that can reach a global audience. Michael Rogers has [...]