I’m going to say something a touch controversial, but please stick with me. I think by the end of this post, you’ll agree. Here it is: in our individual lives, true and complete peace isn’t possible.  Not only that — it isn’t necessary. And more importantly, you...

Organizations often fail when cultivating the people who are going to be promoted into the next level of position. Instead of consciously designing the growth of the individual and the position, they tend to execute the Peter principal: rising everyone to their own...

Did you know that every few years throughout his career, Tiger Woods would break down and rebuild his swing? It's true. Sometimes it was to accommodate an injury, others to fix a perceived flaw. He goes to a golf coach and has the coach re-teach him how to swing, from...

Isn't it funny how such opposing contradictions can be true? Like that saying for parents that days go slow but the years go fast, or that feeling of being so busy and yet accomplishing so little.   Or being afraid of retirement for fear of not knowing what to do with...

Did Elon Musk really do that? When his dedicated assistant asked for a raise to equal the level of contribution she was providing, did Musk really say, “Take two weeks off and see if you are indispensable,” and then realize she wasn’t, and then fire her? There are...

When we’re planning ahead for what’s going to make the year great, we’re often thinking externally. We’re thinking marketplace objectives, budgets, spreadsheets, and check marks. We do this. Companies do this. And you know what? That’s fine. It’s important! The...

We’ve all gone through difficulties over the last year…ha! “Difficulties.” Isn’t that the understatement of the century! My point, however, is that we’ve all had mountains to climb. A lot of our mountains are similar — we’re dealing with a pandemic. But everyone’s...

January has come and gone, and a lot of us might be feeling a bit overwhelmed when it comes to keeping those resolutions. Maybe they didn’t go as smoothly as we would have liked — maybe we’re tempted to fully give up, because if we can’t do it perfectly, what’s the...

To continue on our CVI streak, I want to talk about the quadrants. There are four main CVI values:  Merchant, Innovator, Banker, Builder. We each have a major quadrant, and a secondary quadrant — but what I want to point out is this: we all have access to every...