Attending to the needs of a dog is challenging.  Why are they considered

Inject productive ritual into our lives:  The caring routine keeps us “out there”, safely experiencing life.  Being there for or with a friend, opens the door to serendipity (what happens while we are busy doing something else).  For example, if you weren’t out walking the dog, you may not have noticed a beautiful sunset or met the new neighbor...

Using a special date such as New Years as a watershed for personal growth

 2. Draw a relationship target.  Place yourself and loved ones in the bull’s eye.  In the second ring, list your best friends.  In the next add good friends, then on to casual friends, and in the last ring associates such as neighbors and colleagues.  Inventory where you spent time last year.  My initial assessment identified that I spent time...

The poem, Beowulf , written in Old English sometime before the tenth century

A.D., describes the adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century.   Beowulf , the oldest surviving epic in British literature, exists in only one manuscript. This copy survived both the wholesale destruction of religious artifacts during the dissolution...

The new Kindle Fire from Amazon, is setting out to compete with the iPad

.  The new tablet is in full color and priced at $199—well below iPads sale price of $499. The Kindle Fire is getting good reviews and analysts are projecting sales of 5 million units by end of 2011, but Amazon will have its work cut out for them. Apple sold 11 million iPads...

There are only three folders where we humans file things:  *Things I

CAN Control  *Things I CANNOT Control  *Things I Might Be Able to INFLUENCE’.  The only things that belong in the Things I CAN Control folder are what you SAY, what you DO, and what you INTEND. The most powerful of those in any situation is what you intend, because that...

After 20 years of coaching CEOs from corporations large and small and

in several countries, I believe a differentiating factor in the long term success of busy executives is their ability to stay in touch with the five year old that resides in every adult body.  Responsibilities often burry our inner child under layers of  “shoulds”—...

As a parent, I know the agony of watching children leave the nest unprepared

—an  opinion they did not share at the time.  There are many pitfalls and traps along life’s way and I wanted to protect them from serious mistakes.  They wanted to leave before I felt they were ready and I tried to hang on long after they’d already gone.  There comes...

The marketplace is shifting because of global competition and the impact

of digital technology. And, like a wheel within a wheel, so are internal business dynamics. The age-old challenge of managing growth continues—it’s a challenge that eventually confronts every CEO. If the management of corporate growth is not dealt with effectively, the entrepreneur...

Like most business owners, Dan Martucci’s  struggles with a faltering

economy  left him exhausted at the end of each day.  Usually a positive, charitable, and fun loving father, he realized that if he wasn’t carefu, recession pressure could indirectly impact his family.  He resolved to preserve his home as a safe and comforting sanctuary...

training withour ROI is wasteTraining should be the organizations ultimate

signal.  It tells employees what is and is not strategically relevant.  If proposed training is not strategically relevant, DON’T DO IT.  Any training that does not  impact the bottom line is a costly distraction.  Replace “just in case” with “just in time” training...