In common parlance, a point of view is a convenient synonym for an opinion. It’s even become an over-used acronym, as in the title above. However, in the vocabulary and practice of…
It wasn’t her fault at all. She’s 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 you’ve 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…
I missed NeoCon in June, first time since 1988. It was difficult to break that streak because NeoCon has always been a pleasure for me, not a burden. For those 30-odd years…
A starting point for this column is my confession to an unsurprising bias… I treasure words. They have the power to articulate complex thoughts, to inspire new and innovative ideas, to capture…
For some people in the office furniture and workplace industry, going to Chicago in early June is an established ritual. For others a repeated and unwelcome burden. For still others a delightful…
It has long seemed to me that the notion of work-life balance is a misguided pursuit. Not because some balancing of those realities is neither possible nor desirable, but because the conjoined…
Long before it became fashionable to identify the phenomenon of disruption, and especially before it was regarded as bold and innovative to be a disruptor, there were some significant disruptions in the…
Ever hear of a rock tumbler? Until recently, me neither, but it turns out to be one of the more common methods and tools for polishing stones. Here’s how it works. A…