Denial doesn’t just happen to the other guy. We all suffer that insidious disconnect between self-awareness and reality from time to time. Worst case, you’re a big boss who destroys a company, countless jobs and millions in shareholder value. Happens all the time, I’m afraid. Luckily for most of us,[…] Read On
My wife Kim was just out of town visiting family in Wisconsin for 10 days. They say loneliness makes the heart grow fonder. I think it just makes the heart grow lonelier. Don’t get me wrong. Of course I missed her (that’s my story and I’m sticking to it), but[…] Read On
IDOLIZE verb : to worship as a god; to love or admire to excess We have a tendency to idolize our heroes. That’s nothing new. Whether it’s politics, business, sports or entertainment, we hoist those we admire up on impossibly high pedestals, and when they fail to meet our lofty[…] Read On
Millions of Trekkies recently celebrated the birthday of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. I was a sci-fi nut growing up, and that was hands down my favorite show as a kid. What I loved most was its portrayal of a kinder, gentler, more united future world. There was a United[…] Read On
When oppressed groups band together to stand up for their civil rights, that’s a good thing. When political parties, organizers, activists and anarchists exploit those groups by stoking the flames of discord for their own purposes, that’s called identity politics. And that’s a bad thing. A really bad thing. The[…] Read On
My first boss in the tech industry was a highly respected engineering manager named Dick. A former college football lineman who looked just like Mr. Clean but without the earrings, Dick tried his best to teach me lessons that I was unfortunately too arrogant to appreciate. The big guy had[…] Read On
I was intrigued by an article in yesterday’s Harvard Business Review entitled “What 11 CEOs Have Learned About Championing Diversity.” The author is Stefanie Johnson, a biz school prof who studies the intersection of leadership and diversity and the effect of unconscious bias on evaluations. The piece starts with a[…] Read On