Life Lessons Articles

“Fortune favors the bold.” Virgil (70-19 BC) There’s a great tendency in the month of December to wind things down. With the holiday season upon us, and the least amount of sunlight of the year around to energize us, we're influenced to work in slow motion.  We feel...

Early one morning just a few weeks ago, I woke up with the intention of starting my day at the gym.  But before I ever made it out of the house, I completely blacked out, fell on a cold travertine floor and broke my ribs. The pain from that fall was excruciating; and...

“The future ain't what it used to be."  – Yogi Berra Directly or indirectly, the common theme expressed in everything I write is that our traditional ways of leading people in the workplace are failing. We’ve seen employee engagement fall precipitously over a...

“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.                                                         Carl Jung             I recently learned that the leadership-training curriculum at Google places a heavy...