During a presentation last night, I got this question: “How long can you wait before updating LinkedIn? Sometimes people go through changes they don’t want to broadcast—they get fired, divorced—how long can they wait before posting this while still being current?” Social media is catalyzing the way in which people deal with the truth. We’ve [...]
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Let me start this post with an extraordinary event that happened to me recently: I found myself next to a woman at a networking event. I had never met her before. As we listened to the speaker, I had this odd urge to take her hand and put it on my arm. Nothing sexual—I just [...]
Elle stands up for herself and gets some surprising, counter-intuitive advice from dad as a result. I could be way off base, who knows. I just want what’s best for my girl, today, tomorrow, and in the future. And if it isn’t totally clear from the video, I am incredibly proud of my girl for [...]
If you woke up tomorrow and had wings, what would you do? Go for a fly around town? Hide ‘em? Call your family with the news? Waking up with wings would bring you incredible opportunity, obviously… but it would also bring quite a few new responsibilities and also a number of logistical challenges. For instance: [...]
Leaders, by definition, are out in front. Leaders go first. By going first, leaders take some of the fear out of work for their followers and make it easy for them to… well… follow. Because let’s face it: going first can be scary. But if a leader gets too far out in front, then the [...]
You cannot calculate the ROI of culture, using modern technologies and knowledge, any more than you can calculate the value of trust or the health benefits of love. If you are responsible for stewarding culture at your organization, and you are pressed to deliver an ROI for your efforts, memorize the following passage. You’ll find [...]
Years ago, I worked at a company where we had a quote board. It was a whole section of the wall in our office wing, and it was covered in completely conversational snippets things like: ‘There’s nothing at that URL.’ ‘That’s because you typed lickmyballs.com. Try lickmynuts.com.’ That line is from the actual board, and [...]
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