Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage – Anais Nin Our news sources continue to be dire. As individuals, what steps can we take? Continue to wring hands and worry? Continue to deny ourselves a look at our 401k and investment reports? Since the beginning of 2008, Americans have lost 3.6million jobs. (Read…

I was reading an article last week about a man who was a star athlete in a small town in Texas and at 19 years of age was in a tragic car accident. His 1955 Ford Thunderbird flipped over several times and he was left a quadriplegic – he literally could move nothing below his…

This past week we watched a historic event. As Barack Obama was sworn in as our 44th President of the United States of America, regardless of political affiliation, we stood witness to the incredible change, which has taken place in our country over the past 200 years. I listened intently to this speech for any and…

Over the past few weeks the number of people who have lost their jobs, filed bankruptcy, had their homes foreclosed upon, dipped severely into their retirement nest egg, etc. has grown to epidemic proportions. I have met with a least a dozen individuals and clients who are simply at a loss as to ‘what to…

As we come upon the Thanksgiving holiday, I struggled with what to share which may offer a new set of lenses through which to look at our lives, as so many face a Thanksgiving filled with loss. We are living in a time where the good in the world is often over-shadowed by a myriad…

I have started this blog at least a hundred times in the past 10 days. However, with the daily volatility in the world, quite candidly, I had a hard time getting my head around what I really wanted to say. Today, the world looks terribly different from when I started this entry. The inevitable and…

In today’s world most everyone has engaged in 360 feedback processes, bi-directional feedback, and opinion surveys of one sort or another in order to gauge leadership strengths, 360-degree job performance, what’s working/what’s not working, and overall customer satisfaction. Companies put employees (and often their alliance partners, channel partners, and even their customers) through this rigor…

Why is it that if the people ‘on the company bus’ are a company’s most important asset, they are not treated as such? For years, I have been taught through many leadership courses, business books, etc. that a company’s greatest asset is their ‘human capital.’ In fact, as early as 1982 when Tom Peters released, In Search…

There was a Boy’s Club in my home town; however, to be honest, I had no real familiarity with it. I knew they were a ‘good outfit’ (through, what I know now, only as: ‘brand awareness’); yet, I had no first hand experience until this year. I have had the privilege of working with the…

We are all familiar with “The Pied Piper of Hamelin.” Remember – the folk tale written by the Brothers Grimm. It tells about the disaster in the town of Hamelin, Germany, back in the late 1200’s. In that year a man came to Hamelin claiming to be a rat-catcher. The people of Hamelin promised him…