When you've made real commitments that add up to 100%+ of the time/mental energy you have available, how do you deal with it? I'm in that situation at the moment and find myself debating whether to concentrate on one thing, get it done (while other things fall by the...
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Make It Easy To Communicate
If you're a businessperson, relationships and partnerships are a key part of getting things done. Communication is one of the most important components of successful working relationships. Yet all the communication technology we've invented has actually made it harder...
How The Rich Are Different (Hint: Not Much)
I've found the older I get, the more I hear people talk about how some rich or famous person is so smart, generous, insightful, good at business, etc. Only these days, I actually know some of the people being placed on pedestals. I offer you this report as a public...
What is dark matter, anyway?
Last week, I suggested that we could use dark matter to organize our own cult and meet angels. I was joking. But it got me thinking... what is dark matter, anyway? I've long held that human beings ignore a fundamental truth about how we perceive the world: we do it...
You have to want to succeed as much as you want to breathe. Really?
“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” That’s great if it’s your only option, but there are other ways.
Physics used to justify wishful thinking
The Copenhagen interpretation of physics is used to justify wish-and-it’s-yours principles of some new age thinking. In this article, I suggest that other unexplored physics phenomena can be equally useful.
The Power of Visceral Relationships
I'm having a conversation on Google+ about social media, and it connected up with an exercise I did today to produce a rather puzzling realization. Social media has certainly broadened who I know and how we connect. It's because of social media that I have met some of...
A provocative coaching question.
What's something you're not admitting to yourself that, if you did, would change your life completely?
“Strategic Thinking” – The Meaning Behind the Buzzword
It sounds easy: my client wanted to think more strategically. isn’t that the hot buzzword? “Strategic thinking.” Oooh! Sexy. There’s only one problem: what, exactly, does it mean? You’d think we would know. But I’ve seen executive teams discuss in all seriousness what...
Income Distribution and the Ultra-Rich
A friend wrote to a group I'm part of: Some folks I know who are at pre-IPO companies are really opposed to Warren Buffett's support of raising taxes on the ultra-rich, saying that Buffett is helping keep a glass ceiling in place between them and being super rich....