Yesterday I watched someone I adore do something that doesn’t serve him. If you find yourself not persuading as well as you like, think about your choice of words. For people to be really “gotten”, they need to connect with others. Not with bigger words, said faster. But with simple words, said slower. Focusing on [...]
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How Lucky We Are
is in service to the person. Not the service to the person.
The Heron
In a few weeks, I’m doing a talk on Passion. It’s one I’ve never done before. I find my mind goes to the topic often — to define it, to frame it, to come to terms with what can one teach vs. what can one show. And, so in my normal way of pondering, I [...]
Three Cups of Tea
Just finished this book about a month ago. It hasn’t left my consciousness. Greg Mortenson (a local guy in the Bay Area) tries to summit Everest and fails. The guy who helps him nurse back to health was awesome. Greg feels a bond of debt and promises to help this guy’s village. They need a [...]
Writing Must Create Context
I’m writing a book. Or, at least, I hope to be writing a book. A bunch of the stuff I’m working on now is thinking about who it serves, it’s purpose, it’s vision and the breakdown of the big ideas into smaller ideas that tell a story. One thing is clear. A great deal of [...]
Michele Had Passion but how to capture it?
A friend of mine passed away recently. It was one of those unexpected and out of the blue things that when it happens, it can be said that ‘that happened too early’. A brain aneurysm. On Oscar day. One minute, she was jovially getting ready for the evening party around movies and fashion. And a [...]
12 Ways of Emotional Intelligence
I give this talk on “having a seat at the table” where i talk about bringing our full self, full values to work. Because, of course, complex decisions require way more than a rational check list. They require judgment. And judgment is best with high EQ folks. This List is an excellent one to think [...]
Art of Innovation
My hero. Every time I read an article about Ideo, read their book, read an article about them, I get goose bumps. Ideo is to Innovation what I aspire Rubicon to be for Business Strategy. Tom Kelley, one of the founders of Ideo wrote down ideas and systems for allowing innovation. Since you’ve all touched [...]
Blue Ocean Strategy
An incredibly popular (1M sold in the first year) book with a title I just love. Blue Ocean represents untapped market space. Written by a BCG guy, it’s a good book to talk about the need to create new markets vs. fighting it out over existing turf. They use Cirque Du Soleil as a great [...]
Good to Great
I couldn’t start this library section without talking about Good to Great. Jim Collins writes this book to define the ways good organizations can become great. He led a team and did a bunch of research to back this up. This book has formed some fundamentals in business. One is the hedgehog concept. Which is [...]