Read these five famous quotes and tell me if you can figure out what they all have in common: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein “I will always choose a lazy person to do a hard job because a[…] Read On
Everyone wants to be successful so they get online and Google “how to be successful.” Guess what they find? Gazillions of listicles by losers in desperate need of clicks and attention who generate free content based on cheesy self-help books. If you read enough of that nonsense you’ll find all[…] Read On
I bet if you ask 10 people how to rate a CEO, you’ll probably get 10 different answers. There really is just one way, though. You rate them the same way you rate athletes, entertainers, doctors, attorneys or anyone else, for that matter. Including yourself. One word: Performance. In the[…] Read On
Friends often ask me why I do what I do. By any measure I had one hell-of-a career. I went out on top. Why bother blogging and consulting? Why not just retire to some pristine island in the pacific, lounge on the beach, write my memoirs and work on the[…] Read On
Some say youth is wasted on the young. Others say wisdom is wasted on the old. If you listen up and play your cards right, you can avoid both cynical predictions. We all start out young and dumb. A blank sponge. That’s just the way it is. We learn as[…] Read On
People have a remarkable capacity for putting off the inevitable and making life way harder than it has to be. I’m not talking about procrastinating. Everyone procrastinates; it’s not that big a deal. I’m talking about creating enormous imaginary obstacles and using them as excuses not to take any action[…] Read On
Now that senseless attacks like what happened in Toronto and Nashville are covered 24×7 by the click-happy media that never lets a good tragedy go to waste, the Twitterati and Instagramites have gotten into the habit of “sending love and healing thoughts” to people they’ve never even met. Sometimes entire[…] Read On