Thought For The Week: Hollywood Advice

Do you know that saying among performance artists that goes: There are no small parts. Only small actors. Do you know what that actually means? Apparently I didn’t. I assumed that it meant some actors are physically smaller than others, but an actor friend of...
Eating My Own Dog Food: A Thought on Irony

Eating My Own Dog Food: A Thought on Irony

Sometimes, the hardest thing we have to do is follow our own advice. Live our own teachings. Or, as a past colleague used to say: “Eat our own dog food.” You may recall my blog post a few weeks ago about how important and valuable it is as a leader to...

Thought For The Week

If I could write or take claim to a song about the courage of personal leadership, of all the songs I’ve heard and loved, I wish I could have written Nothing More by the Alternate Routes. There’s a particular phrase in there that reads: Tell me what it is...

An Opportunity to Lead an Extraordinary Life

Jacques Cousteau once said, “If you have the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, you have no right to keep it to yourself.” Notice the words he used. He didn’t say, “if you have the opportunity to live an extraordinary life.” He didn’t say, “the...