The pattern I noted in last monthās column of referencing some recent book or publication and then drawing out its implications for our workplace profession will finally shatter. This monthās column is,…
These columns, I fear, are assuming a familiar pattern, referencing and/or advocating a publication, past or recent, that has a core insight or a set of ideas that has an application to…
Dieter Ramsā birthday this past May, he turned 93, provided an apt occasion to revisit his āTen Principles of Good Design.ā In an era when superlatives are overused, it is striking that…
A newly published book that got my attention this Spring comes from Prithwiraj Choudhury, a former professor at The Wharton School and currently on the faculty at the Harvard Business School, titled…
For multiple decades Patrick Lencioni has been a popular author, motivational speaker, consultant, and now podcaster, focusing largely on personal and professional improvement and the ways those two arenas interact in the…
A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Andrea Elliott, was quoted as saying, āProximity changes everything.ā She was speaking from her experience of researching and writing stories based on being physically present with the…
In common parlance, a point of view is a convenient synonym for an opinion. Itās even become an over-used acronym, as in the title above. However, in the vocabulary and practice of…
It wasnāt her fault at all. Sheās extremely bright, unapologetically passionate, and relatively new to our industry, so she could be easily excused for posing a question that is a flat-out trigger…
It was about three decades ago, and I was attending a conference of the World Business Forum, that year held in Chicago. One of the most engaging speakers was Dr. Margaret Wheatley,…
I recently returned to the University of Notre Dame for the annual reunion of the program, the Inspired Leadership Initiative (ILI), where I was a fellow in 2022-2023. The ILI staff have…
There are people who devote significant hours each week to podcast listening, sometimes while commuting or driving, sometimes while exercising or walking, sometimes while performing less-than fully engaging work or household tasks.…
If youāve ever had the occasion to check into a more upscale hotel, or at least one that portends to be, you know that they work very hard to make that experience…