Ordinary Life, Extraordinary Living

Life Lessons

The CEO and The Monk

This month, I’m interviewing my friend, Kenny Moore, for the Leading With A Whole New Mind podcast. Kenny is the co-author of book, The CEO and the Monk. Kenny is a former monk, now in the HR department of one...

What Clinton Knows About Networking

Last month, I blogged about the book, the 4-Hour Work Week, by Timothy Ferriss. I also recommended the book in my monthly ezine. (If you are not on the list, sign up in the left menu bar, second box down...

Are You Working In or On Your Career?

Michael Gerber, the small business guru, and author of The E-Myth Revisited, has a favorite question: “Are you working in your business or on your business?” If you are doing the former, you are what Gerber calls “the technician,” the...

Lego Serious Play

For a truly whole brain approach to working with teams, read this article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on LEGO SERIOUS PLAY, a problem-solving and communications methodology. I've been using LEGO SERIOUS PLAY with teams for the last few years, with...

Delighting the Customer

A friend of mine bought a new car from a dealer showroom. He asked the floor manager for a bottom line price that included everything, including trade-in of his old car. The final price to take the car home.  My...

Better Labels

Researcher, Michael Wolf, an assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University, is working on the design of presciption bottle labels. His big question, "Why are we not phrasing things properly on bottles?" points to a pragmatism that most of...

Three Years Ago

Three years ago, I was struggling to make a living. I had the mindset of a technician, looking for that next job, hoping for the phone to ring. I had been focused on learning the craft of coaching. After finishing...

Networking, Time Off, and Doing What You Love

Marci Alboher interviews Herminia Ibarra, the author of one of my favorite books on career transition, Working Identity.  The interview brings out some great points about networking and time off. It was from Ms. Ibarra’s book that I first realized...

Malcolm Gladwell Fans

Just before going on vacation to Ouray, CO, I browsed iTunes for free, good stuff to download for the long car ride.  I found The New Yorker Conference, in which Malcolm Gladwell interviews people who think differently about traditional fields—innovators...

Ouray, Colorado

Photos from our family vacation to Ouray, Colorado, one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Enjoy.