The Ugly Truth About Coaching Businesses
I talked today to a friend who I met several years ago, as members of an association for professional coaches. While the national association is going strong, our local chapter disbanded a few years ago. We reminisced about coaches we...
Lessons from Traverse City
It's been over a week since I had a conversation about social entrepreneurship with twenty like-minded individuals in Traverse City, Michigan--people who believe in the idea of "doing well and doing good." What I took away from that experience: Lesson...
Working Among the Lego Aliens
It's been almost two weeks since my computer died--a victim of my eagerness to "get it done." I was notified that a new Microsoft Service Pack was ready for installation. This was an hour before leaving on a business trip...
Biggest Mistake Made By Event Organizers, Concert Producers, and Corporate Trainers
I've been obsessed recently by the words, front end and back end. Front end is the focus of traditional publicists and marketing professionals, conference organizers and producers of musical events, and workplace trainers. They focus on visibility, the Big Splash,...
Two Protons Walk Into a Black Hole….
A Wall Street Journal article points to a group of physicists, working on a renown project, the Large Hadron Collider, who are learning improv and taking comedy classes. Why? To hone their skills in communicating about their work to the...
Dora’s Big Adventure
I have this theory that communities provide three fundamental things that human beings seek: Comfort, Joy, and Empowerment. 1. Comfort. It's that feeling of being with like-minded people, kindred spirits, people who "get me." I know that I belong. When...
Growing Pains
Conversation at the breakfast table between myself and my 13-year old son: "Is that a scratch on your nose? What's that red stuff?" "Acne." I'm trying hard not to look surprised. This is my youngest child, with the first sign...
Remind Me When I Get To Maui
A relatively new reader to this blog emailed about finding the archive of older posts on this blog, from three years ago: "I was fascinated by the posts because the "voice" of those posts is very different from the "voice"...