Nature’s first green is gold/ Her hardest hue to hold/Her early leaf’s a flower/ But only so an hour – Nothing Gold Can Stay – Robert Frost We hear a lot these days about ‘rounding the [...]

There is a strong connection between mentorship and storytelling.  Mentorship is all about relationships. Relationships are all about communication.  And storytelling plays an important role in [...]

Interview, who’s interviewing who/ Are you interviewing me/ Or am I interviewing you   Cyndi Lauper The art of interviewing a prospective client, a skill central to our business and [...]

The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it and not say anything.  If they fall off, they fall off, but it’s bad if you say anything to them.  [...]

Come gather ’round, people/Wherever you roam/And admit that the waters/Around you have grown – Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A Changing In our collective efforts to serve the interests of [...]

I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter/Dancing through the fire   Katy Perry – Roar Our associates or junior colleagues, in addition to other tools I have been addressing in these posts, [...]

“I read the news today, oh boy”   A Day in the Life, Lennon and McCartney The human brain contains at least 90 billion neurons, each an information processing device interacting with [...]

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World These are, as John Lennon wrote, “strange days indeed”. And by all accounts they [...]

 “But I know this, a man can’t worry and hit home runs”.  Jane Leavy, The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created. Events at home and around the world have of course confirmed (assuming [...]

“Our Ego Barrier prevents us from acknowledging our weakness. Our need to be right can come before our need to know what’s true.”  —  Principles for Success, Ray Dalio I have been casually [...]