Gigapan.org is worth a few minutes of your time. Especially for the purposes of this column, being a reflection on leadership, it inspires the imagination. When you open it, you will see an enormous long-shot panorama of the inauguration. Impressive, but it is when you zoom in, with exceptional clarity, to any detail, that you […]
Month: January 2009
The Lime Tree, Making Limeade Out of Sour Stuff
When I stepped onto my front porch today, a miniature lime tree greeted me. Tiny white blossoms were laced among its deep green leaves, and elfin-sized limes drooped from the branches. A thank-you gift from my friend Judy. We had lunch a week ago where she asked my advice about a difficult conversation […]
The Lady Yoda: An Unexpected Black Belt
She’s a sixth degree black belt, weighs in at about 92 pounds and is a petite 5’2″ tall. And that’s not the cool part. What goes on in her head, her philosophy about life, as she teaches the (mostly) men students she works with, that’s the cool part. Meet the strikingly attractive Aikido master […]
“Matress” is a Game That Gets Old Fast
Remember those days when “all” the economic news was cheery? Remember when you felt like everybody “else” was making tons of money? From the hedge fund to the venture capital clicks, if you weren’t an insider, at least, you could put your money in the market and feel like a player. Money was flying faster […]
Re-Solution for 2009
Happy New Year, and this is going to be short: Stop looking at the idea of a New Year’s resolution as being another promise that you break. Instead, look at resolution by breaking the word down into its parts. You, your business, and I all need new solutions for the coming year. New ways of […]