Recently, I shared with you all my journey in making a pair of handmade paddle boards for my daughter and myself, including the remarkable effect that epoxy has on what was a hole in the wooden frame. Once the epoxy was on, the hole was non-existent; the hard shell...

"Positive accountability is easy," he told me. "If they do what they commit to, they get rewarded. But," he asked, "how do we use positive accountability when they miss the mark?" The short answer? Separate accountability from compensation altogether. When we hire...

All too often, we don’t recognize the power of how our resources work together. A person we work with is often oversimplified as either ‘good or bad.’ But we forget what the correlation is between parts. What tools do they actually bring to the table? Their...

“Huh? I have no idea what you mean," I replied when my wife shared that 'our feet had spread.' “During the pandemic,” she said. "Turns out that people the world ‘round are having a hard time fitting into their work shoes after 18 months of barefoot and slippers.”...

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. - Carl Sagan Our culture loves to worship the 'self-made millionaire,' the 'self-made business leader,' the person who pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps and made their own...

More times than not, I think we seek the path of least resistance. It's our survival instinct. We avoid obstacles, challenges, and danger, rather than asking how we could harness it and use it for good. But things we often avoid and resist can be powerful if...

This pandemic has been painful for all of us. Certainly some of us much more than others; they say we're all in the same boat, but it would be more accurate to say we're all in the same storm. Many of us are armed with very different boats to deal with the same...

Twenty years ago, like most of us, I woke up to news I couldn’t have imagined in my wildest nightmares. And it didn’t stop. Seeing the first tower hit in NYC was an image that felt not just incomprehensible, but non-duplicatable. Then the second tower was hit, and...

If you've ever felt like you just can't get organized, if your brain feels like spaghetti, if you're overwhelmed at a problem -- many times, the solution is much more simple than we realize: Write. It. Down.  The value of getting all the crap out of our heads and onto...

Have you ever listened to a teammate or supervisor explain something, and you notice your defenses just go right up at their tone of voice? They have great things to say. You'd like to engage. But they're just being so mean!  I think we've all been here, right? Well,...