Some of you reading this will begin to chuckle, as you know where this is heading. You see, a few weeks ago, after my sister’s dog, Cleo,  rumbled in a yard where there was a propensity of fleas, I became ‘host B’ to those that jumped from Cleo to me as I bathed her. It goes without saying,…

As Devin Leonard of Business Week offered last week: “What’s remarkable about the case of Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant who quit his job in magnificent style on Aug. 9, is not that an airline worker would snap after an encounter with an unruly passenger on a mid-morning Pittsburgh-to-JFK run. It’s that so much…

Call me a sucker, yet I have always loved the movie Chariots of Fire, which made its debut (yes, I am dating myself) in 1981. It was a British film that tells the true story about two athletes in the 1924 Olympics, Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God and Harold…

Recently, in the Dallas Morning News, I read a unique article on getting a handle on clutter and organization.  It caught my eye because it was all about those people that hoard – in which I continue to be amazed, repulsed, and intrigued.  What drives people to hoard and have closets made out of spare…

For those of us in Texas, this recent standoff between Nolan Ryan and Mark Cuban to buy the Texas Rangers was right up there with the Jerry Jones/Jimmy Johnson and the firing of Tom Landry back in 1989. Old perceptions, die hard. For those of us who are purists, the only choice for ownership was Nolan…

When I lead leadership development workshops, we often begin with a well-known exercise which highlights a person’s Journey Line – in other words: how a person has gone through life up to this point, and how their highs and lows create the person (and leader) they have become. I, for one, believe we grown and learn…

I can only imagine that both Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard are indeed rolling over in their graves with the most recent debacle of Mark Hurd falling from grace while at the helm of Hewlett-Packard.  There are many casting aspersions about him; and that I will not do. His conscience and the unavoidable fall-out personally…

Many of my clients have heard me refer to an all time favorite movie clip from the movie Jerry McGuire starring Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGt5f70K02Q This is the scene in the locker room where Jerry is simply at his wits end trying to support his client! He is pleading with him to “help…

Recently I was reading a fabulous book, The Extraordinary Coach by John Zenger, which had a great analogy relative to giving feedback to employees. As you all  know, I am a big believer in giving and getting feedback on a regular basis. Feedback is a gift – as cliched as this may sound. In his…

Last night I was watching a news program relative to the ongoing saga of British Petroleum and the lack of responsiveness to the oil crisis, the passing of the mantle from Tony Hayward to Bob Dudley, and the ongoing ’20-20′ hindsight commentary of how the company’s leadership responded to the crisis. I am certain there…