Are You Solving The Wrong Problem?

What is the most important question you need to answer about your business, life, success, etc.? More importantly: Are you sure you’re asking it?  Case in point–I recently asked this at a meeting with a prospective client. “Oh, I can answer...

Letting Go and Moving Forward

Andre Gide said “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of familiar shores.” What I love about this quote is that it’s got an inherent built-in conflict. Oh sure, it’s easy to let go of familiar shores when they’re...

Nelson Mandela and The Language of Leaders

In honor of Nelson Mandela, I wanted to honor one of my favorite quotes of his.  He said, “If you speak to a man in a language he understands, you speak to his head. If you speak to him in his language, you speak to his heart.” We all use...

Seeing Possibility

The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said “Ours is not to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what no one has yet thought about that which everyone sees.” We are so often committed to this idea that great leadership is about pure originality. We have...