Everyone wants to get out of meetings but the truth is, when well done, they’re irrplaceable. A five to ten minute meeting – spaced appropriately for your needs, daily or weekly, helps everyone pull in the same direction. Although they can be a bother to get to, when mini-meetings are done well, they more than [...]

I just returned from a trip to Africa where I was a tourist in Egypt, helped build a school in a very remote and primitive village in Malawi and then did a wonderful safari before touring Soweto in S. Africa. I was struck in Malawi by how the indigenous culture has gone  underground  – took [...]

This video is a great take on failure. Great success really requires failure yet we haven’t trained our leaders to capitalize on it. Honda got it right:

Do unto others as you would have them do onto you.
Christianity
Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
Buddhism
What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man.
That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.
Judaism
No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he [...]

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves…Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” —Rainer Maria Rilke

I felt an immediacy about being in the remote Amazon jungle where I stayed with the headhunting Shuar tribe. I felt the same thing last summer when I stayed in a remote, primitive village in Malawi, Africa’s poorest country. Both places called me to a presence that I don’t usually experience here in my cushy life in Pennsylvania.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re running a Fortune 100 or your own small business. And it doesn’t matter whether you’re conscious of it or not: you’ve got a brand and it’s important to stay conscious of it and consistent with it. Here’s some sound thinking on brand building

The best way to stay on your professional edge is to anchor in your soulful center. Joni Carley

In my coaching/consulting work, I’ve found that clients fall short of unleashing ultimate potential because they think of it in finite terms. We’re a goal-oriented society and we’ve come to believe that the only way to succeed is to name a goal, make a plan, work the plan, and attain the goal. Or, not attain the goal and thereby fail. Goal methodology works – no question that many great things have come out of goal setting and achieving. However, as a sole modus operandi, it’s limited and archaic.

I have a pet peeve at my fitness center. It’s located in a huge hospital complex so there are brick-sized metal plates on the wall that emergency personnel and frail people can hit to open the doors electronically. It always surprises me how many people will spend an hour lifting weights and will consume electricity to open a simple push door when they’re coming and going.