Have you struggled to get important, difficult work done? I can relate to this problem; much of my life has felt like a struggle to concentrate. In middle school, I discovered that it was taking me far longer to write school papers than my classmates. It might take me...
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large — I contain multitudes.” – Walt Whitman, Song of Myself One of my favorite books from high school was The Old Man and the Sea. What struck me at the time about the book was about how the Old Man...
When investors make an investment in a company, or when executives are running one, they are also making a series of decisions about people. Do I trust this person to get the results we expect? When making a decision of that importance, it stands to reason that you’d...
As I cycled back to my office from a leadership development meeting in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood on a recent morning, I decided to take a longer route, one that Google Maps had recommended but that I had dismissed. “Why would I want to go a block in the wrong...
First, let me introduce myself. I’m a career-long people geek (I love thinking about how people and organizations can be more successful), and I’m always looking for ways to make delivering a great workplace experience to employees easier, faster, cheaper and more...
