Finding Your Golden Silence

Finding Your Golden Silence

Henry David Thoreau, who after spending a year and a half in quiet solitude at Walden Pond certainly earned the right to expound on silence, talks about the necessity to shake off the village as a means of connecting to your inner wisdom. Thoreau also underscored the...
Listen Before You Leap

Listen Before You Leap

Risk-taking is critical to business success. But the starting point for taking smart risks should be in action, not action. Come on, you might be thinking, let’s fast‐forward to where the action is.  Risk‐taking is James Bond throttling a motorcycle off a cliff and...
Are You M.A.D.?

Are You M.A.D.?

Sometimes the best way for a leader to reveal how passionately they care about an issue is to get very, very angry. I am not suggesting that a leader should use anger to intimidate people. Quite the contrary. The kind of anger I’m speaking of often enlists people to...
The Right Side Of Risk

The Right Side Of Risk

Time sure does fly. It’s hard for me to believe that it’s been over ten years since my first book, Right Risk, was published. At the time, risk-taking was very much on my mind. I was restless and overly content in a six-figure job with Accenture, one of the world’s...
Mentoring Matters

Mentoring Matters

My life and career have been propped up by mentors. They have been the difference-makers for me. Now that I am at life’s halfway point – I turned 50 this year – I am especially conscious about how much of an impact they have had on who I am. I’m always troubled when a...