The world is in a funk.  The news is depressing. Fear grips many. Sales of anti-depressants are up.
As I walk out of my door this afternoon to go skiing in the fresh powder that has graced the Rockies, I drop my skis onto the ground and begin to step into the bindings. The lift is [...]

Years ago, I ran a private company. Our major competitors were publicly traded organizations who ran their businesses to meet the expectations of Wall Street analysts and shareholders. We, on the other hand, enjoyed the freedom of privacy which enabled us to make decisions based purely on our own criteria rather than the demands of [...]

Many of my clients are very committed to diversity in their organizations. But I have always been wary of diversity programs because “diversity” - a code word for reducing exisiting levels of prejudice - signifies that we have a “problem” and that we need to “fix” it. But surely the problem cannot be “fixed’ with [...]

The cover of the August 26th. issue of Business Week features Rainn Wilson, “who plays everbody’s favorite workplace irritant on TV’s The Office”. It trumpets the headline, “Trouble at the Office? Toxic Bosses. Work/Life Balance. Generational Tension” and goes on to portray the story as a “milestone at Business Week” because, presumably, the article is [...]

Twenty-five years ago, my wife and I were riding our mountain bikes in the country when we stumbled across a gorgeous log building tucked away in a corner of the Niagara Escarpment - the world’s first United Nations Biosphere. It sat perched like an eagle’s nest on the lip of a 400-foot cliff which dropped [...]