I figured a title like that might pique your interest. Most of us want to figure out how to get what we really want out of life. And don’t worry – I actually do know how to make that happen for you, even if I have no idea what exactly you want out of life. …
Over the years I’ve developed several different keynote presentations on a variety of topics. And over the years, those presentations have changed and evolved so much that the current versions look very different from the original versions. But one piece of information that has remained consistent in my “Unleash Your Inner Tyrant” leadership presentation involves…
A couple months ago I wrote an article about how to avoid allowing a mistake to challenge your sense of self-worth. This month, though, I realized I left something out of that conversation. It focused on the personal benefit of learning to accept that mistakes are a natural part of the learning process. This month,…
The April 2025 issue of National Geographic featured an awards show of sorts – 33 individuals around the world whose work (at least according to National Geographic) is improving the world in some way. Many of them, as you might imagine, are doing things related to the environment. Several, however, were businesspeople, and two in…
I recently had a conversation with my 8-year-old son about how to deal with failure – and then had an almost identical conversation with a 37-year-old friend about the same thing. It made me realize that, for many of us, our attitude toward failure doesn’t change much as we get older – we don’t like…
Recently my 8-year-old son came home from school and asked me if I knew how many uses for the peanut George Washington Carver had discovered. After silently thanking his teachers for encouraging his love of random information, I admitted that all I knew was that it was a lot. “More than 300,” he told me…
Now with a title like that, this article could be about anything. “Win the next billion-dollar Powerball!” for example, would for many readers constitute a surefire path toward a happy 2025. “Stop doing stupid things!” is another excellent suggestion, and one I hope to follow more closely this year than I have in years past.…
Finding a way to connect to other people is an important part of life – in our personal relationships, obviously, but also in business. It is of course perfectly fine to have professional relationships that are entirely transactional. I do not, for example, have a deep connection most of the people who take my money…
Marketing. The very word has the potential to send shivers down the spine. Most of us just want to do whatever it is we do, not spend our lives telling people about it. And yes, I’m saying this despite the reality of social media, which is almost exclusively people telling other people about the stuff…
This will come as absolutely no surprise, but different people have different attitudes toward change. Some people like to move fast and break things, and others like to move slower and break fewer things. So in this article we’re going to explore the concept of change – why some of us like it more than…