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Courage is the frontier of leadership

We need more courage in organizations today. More courage to speak the truth, more courage to call out an issue, more courage to praise the tough choice. More courage to be better people while we work. Here’s 3 ideas for ways to do it.

Video, video — oh how you’ve changed

Most consumers don’t want to become near-professionals to produce a simple home movie or better capture a moment of our lives. Consumers don’t want to master Studio 10 by Pinnacle …

Video, video — oh how you've changed

Most consumers don’t want to become near-professionals to produce a simple home movie or better capture a moment of our lives. Consumers don’t want to master Studio 10 by Pinnacle …

Truth in Business

Truth in business. Is that possible? The spirit is nourished by truth, and goodness. So if in business, we don’t have truth, then does that mean business is soulless? I …

Travel

I’m about to go on vacation for a bit. When I travel, I become invisible, if I want. I do want. I want to stay in my room and read …

Demotivating things need to get tossed first

Questions for all of us leaders of organizations and teams, inspired by my CEO coach. I am sometimes asked about the latest techniques to motivate employees, customers, partners. Sometimes it …

Ecosystems now matter

I know I’m becoming more of an introvert. I now think about things that happened 2 weeks ago and assign meaning to them. Or does that mean, I’m pondering. Hmmm. Well, …

American Apparel in Los Gatos

There’s been some flack in Los Gatos about whether to allow an American Apparel store to open up in downtown. The primary concern is that a big mall-type outlet store …