Fear NOT!
Is other people’s thinking taking over your sense of the world around you? In the run up to the midterm elections the frenzy has been crazy making. You’d think the whole world was falling apart. If you turn off the radio, television, twitter, facebook, etc. does your sense that the world is falling apart go […]
Called to Greatness
Americans mourned the passing of Senator John McCain this week with many conversations about his character, his service and his outspokenness. The public was allowed to mourn
Forecast the economy
Many times in the last few weeks I’ve been asked what the economists are saying about the next recession. Not an expert myself, I read a lot of experts and pundits who sort through data and trends in an effort to forecast the economy. I thought I would share some of my sources in case […]
toxic leadership
The #metoo movement continues to change our national discourse as we observe the various levels of behavior that are called out. How bad was it? How would we view it if/when it happens in our own organizations?
Live today
We scheduled a massage for 4:30, yesterday. At 3:45, I heard the helicopters. Lots of helicopters. Then, I heard sirens. Living close to the 5 freeway, sometimes this happens with a major accident. Not like this. 8 helicopters. They were not over the freeway. Oh no, it is in the neighborhood.
Rule changes
Watching the World Cup Final between Croatia and France, I was thinking about the rules. About offsides, how high was that kick, did it hit his arm? Was that guy really hurt or is he just dragging out the clock.
Civil Discourse
I have not seen the United States of America, the land I love, so torn up since the late 60’s. The name-calling, the divisions, the neighbor pitted against neighbor….the lack of civil discourse. If this has been planted by the Russians, as they have been accused of doing, then they are winning and we, the […]
Risk tolerant?
In his book The Growth Dilemma, Ami Kassar has a series of questions to evaluate how risk tolerant you are in your business. If he gave you $1 million, would you invest it in your company or put it in mutual funds?
Bored v. Busy
It seems like it was a common refrain 10 years ago that everyone was bored. Perhaps that came from living with teenagers. Now everyone complains that they are too busy.
Winners and losers
The steel and aluminum tariffs to be imposed in 2 weeks are a shining example of how decision making from the top creates winners and losers that may have truly unpleasant consequences.