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Before writing here about choosing our words carefully, I want to be sure I am doing the same.† So I have paused to reflect on the tragedy of the recent shootings in Arizona in order to allow the anger, outrage, disgust, loss†and pain to be balanced†with sadness, disappointment, prayer, reflection and thoughtful discourse about how [...]
In 1955, Charlie Wilson, then Chairman of General Motors, coined the famous phrase, “What is good for General Motors is good for America”. How things have changed. Today, this phrase has a certain cringe-inducing feeling about it and, in a way, its poor fit for a post-Great-Recession world represents both what we have lost,†and what [...]
† There is so much that can be learned – both from the light and from the dark.†In this wonderful video, Patrick Henry Hughes teaches us lessons about potential.† Watch the video – it speaks more directly than anything I might describe to you. †
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 existing 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 everybody’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 [...]