You may have heard recently that Apple released its iPhone 5. Maybe you missed it, but that is doubtful, so I am not in any way going to talk about what is different or what is better about this version, this is not a tech blog. Instead, I want to focus on how quickly Apple […]

I have a friend. He runs. In fact, he runs marathons. His next run (www.ultrahike.com) is coming up soon, so he is in the middle of training. Last weekend we got to talking about his training and the run. I have not been able to wrap my head around the why for so long. I […]

Did you go the extra mile this week? If not, what stopped you? Was it a peer, a boss, your family, or was it you? Most likely it was you. We hold ourselves back from doing extraordinary things every day. But why? What stops us from going the extra mile? What stops us from doing […]

I get asked quite often about the one trait that I look for when I am assessing talent. Over the years I have dissected, analyzed, poked and scratched at the question. I quipped that it was dependent on the context of the organization, the role you were looking to hire for, etc. I thought I […]

I was talking to a colleague of mine the other day. We talked about a lot of different things, and it was refreshing. We talked my book, we talked about the Olympics, we talked about the Mars rover and the incredible job done by the NASA engineers. And lastly, we talked about our work and […]

Your leaders are running at warp speed. Oftentimes too busy to get away for a lunch, too busy to make it home on time for dinner and too busy to coach that little league game. There is a reason Google offers free dinners. They know that their employees are pushing the envelope. Testing their limits […]

It is a new season here in the Northeast (maybe not technically), but the start of the school year unofficially begins with the passing of Labor Day. And for most of us in the Northeast there is a great sense of  excitement in many households. The expectations for a great year are running high. There […]

I watched as a friend went through an interesting lesson last month. I had been coaching him about his career and talking to him about what is next for him. Over the course of the past month, he had been courted by a start-up company that was growing rapidly. The company was seen as highly […]