Learning Doesn't Stop The Moment You Leave School
Leadership trainings, talent pools, workshops. You've done all that and you’ve developed a sense of competence and accomplishment. You think you’re good. You think…
Re/Think Zone
Sharp Lessons From The Room
Most of these ideas aren't mine. The connections are.
Think of me as your filter. Thousands of business books. Millions of articles. Endless podcast episodes.
I collect the ideas worth keeping. I test them. I sharpen them. I connect them. I strip away the BS.
Then I give them back in plain English.
One useful idea every two weeks. Enough to help you see what you couldn't see before. Pull on any thread. See where it takes you....
To Hell With Those Ugly Slides, Make Way for Beautiful Ones
The font is too small and your eyes are starting to hurt. You're staring blankly at a messy, wishy-washy, text-heavy, bullet-ridden slide number thirty-two. Thirty-two…
How To Get Out Of A Meeting Without Losing Face
Thomas Sowell has observed, “People who enjoy meetings shouldn’t be in charge of anything.” I like that. If you’ve been in the workforce even a few months, you’ve…
A Cool Way To Multiply Numbers. The Japanese Way.
I want to talk about math. Bear with me. I hate math, but it’s not the point. Before we do some basic math together, I must take you to Japan. You see, I have learned a…
Air Force Error & The Myth of the Average Student
'No one is average. Not you. Not your kids. Not your friends. It’s a mathematical fact with enormous consequences.’ Before we talk about students, we need to travel back…
What hapens when you rest the feather on a small tree branch?
Ever heard of the Japanese word 神業 (pronounced ‘kamiwaza')? It is difficult to translate and like many other great words from Asia, it has no English equivalent. Swiss…
Last but not least: The Suffering of Lawson Craddock
“It was a challenge each and every day to make it to the finish.” - Lawson Craddock The lanterne rouge takes its name from the red lantern that used to hang on the back…
A Rant on a Project Spec
We’ve been challenged since an early age to “go the extra mile.” An extra mile may feel like an overwhelming amount of work in an already busy world. I prefer the…
Don’t think, feel
When you set out to do something, it’s a common mistake to focus on the method more than the goal. If there's one area where most people seem to completely miss the Moon…
The Art of War, Coronavirus & 5 Ds
Life has changed for all of us. When things go south, what is your default, how do you feel? Overwhelmed to move forward? Unsure what to do next? Stuck? “Black Swan”…
Stuck on an escalator? Really?
I came across this video several years ago while writing a speech for my client. The moment I saw it, I knew it perfectly illustrated the point we were trying to get…
Učia sa žiaci vďaka tomu že chodia do školy, alebo napriek tomu, že chodia do školy?
Otázka nie je ako sa majú žiaci učiť. Ani ako majú učitelia učiť. Otázka je KTO NAUČÍ UČITEĽOV PREDÁVAŤ? Dan Pink hovorí “či sa nám to páči alebo nie, všetci teraz…