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The simplicity
- Category: High Performance Teams, Uncategorized
There was a simple joy in watching the first Dodger playoff game last night while we made dinner. I had a new pork and mushroom meatball recipe we were making,...
Go Slow – the motto of Caye Coulker, Belize
- Category: High Performance Teams, Uncategorized
Can you imagine a group of hard driving CEO’s spending a whole week together with spouses “going slow”? Yes, it can happen. It just did. A year ago at...
Compartmentalize and focus
- Category: Management Focus, Uncategorized
Do you have days when there are just too many distracting demands, all urgent? You realize you are jumping from one to another and essentially, not getting anywhere. We all...
Granular Specificity
- Category: Accountability, Uncategorized
You’ve set a goal, you’ve broken it down into intermediate steps with timelines and due dates, and you failed to achieve the target. What happened? James Clear, the author of...
Laughter as medicine
- Category: Communication, Company Culture, Living Well, Uncategorized
Waking up in Chicago, jet-lagged from a late arrival, I hear my 11 month old granddaughter screeching and crawling to her sister’s room. I jump out of bed fearing my...
Seasons
- Category: Living Well, Uncategorized
Visiting Chicagoland just before Labor Day, everyone was taking their last trip to the waterpark, visiting the beach before it closes, and planning for the fall. Someone on the street...
Learners stay young
- Category: Uncategorized
Sometimes it is kinda fun at a dinner party to just sit back and listen to the conversations going on around you. On one side, there may a jousting competition...
Content AND Delivery
- Category: Communication
Why did you like a speaker you heard on TedTalks? What is it about an actor who you could listen to them recite ANYTHING? Why do you cringe when you...
Make more money
I was meeting with a business owner the other day, and we had a conversation we have had several times before: How can they make more money? Does this sound...
The dog days of summer
- Category: Communication, Making better decisions, Uncategorized
Ugh! I’m tired of the heat and it is barely August. August came in July. Does that mean September will come now? Well, the fires have already started. That used...
The gift of an introduction
- Category: Communication, Uncategorized
For people living in Los Angeles, introductions can be like the currency of belonging or prestige in one of our main industries – film. streaming. tv. This is not as...
Assume positive intent
Fraught conversations with people who do not feel safe is something we all have experienced since childhood. In order to protect ourselves, we prepare to be verbally savaged. We stay...
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