"...the wins feel great. They truly do. They also very rarely have anything of lasting value to teach us."Continue reading
Breaking The Rules To Get To The Moon
The Apollo 11 mission serves as a model of precision, timing, and teamwork. So it’s ironic that it might not have happened had someone not broken the rules in a big way. That someone was a man named Dick Day.Continue reading
#BetOnYou: A Lesson from Dave Grohl
In the middle of that session, Grohl got a call at the studio: Tom Petty wanted him to play drums for him on Saturday Night Live... Grohl agreed to the SNL gig, but then the stakes got raised.Continue reading
Managing Opposites: How to Win with Rule-Followers AND Risk-Takers
In managing opposites, both tribes can learn to work together IF communication remains Constant, Candid, and Collaborative. Choose to run the risk of over-communicating. When two groups speak different languages, you may find that ‘over’ is actually only ‘just enough.’Continue reading
The Secret Value of Fear
We all know about fear – that inborn survival code that keeps us from hugging grizzly bears and makes us think twice about walking down dark alleys. Useful? Even life-saving? Yes and yes. But on a day-to-day basis, that gift sometimes feels like a curse; we fear having THAT conversation, we fear letting him or...Continue reading
Now? Now.
Need motivation to get started? Start here...Continue reading
What Happens When You Can’t Lose
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about two words: “process” and “experiment.” Not just thinking about, but seeing them in a new way that has dramatically reframed how I’m viewing challenges and setbacks. Two examples, one professional and one personal… I was recently asked to create a pitch for producing a video to be shot...Continue reading
What Work Is Important?
The work that gets done proves out what is most important to you.Continue reading
Just Unsubscribe
For me, it’s emails from a kids’ fun center we went to once and a Brazilian steakhouse the wifey and I visited about ten anniversaries ago. Yours are different, but you know of which I speak — those persistent emails that long ago wore out their relevance, assuming they ever had any. Clicking that ‘unsubscribe’...Continue reading
Brand Storytelling and Metallica
I had seen this spot on TV previously and loved its approach. Then I read the article below that provides some fascinating behind-the-scenes insights on why it was so effective (spoiler alert: just tell a good story)...Continue reading