When I used to do executive assessments, people would ask me all the time, “What do you do if someone’s lying to you?” And I’d say, “What do you mean, ‘if’?” I assumed everyone was lying to me. Or more accurately, I assumed everyone was selling a particular point of view. Still do. When I’m [...]
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It seems to me that pretty much every one of us carries one of two childhood ideals with us into adulthood. Some of us carry over the ideal of silliness, often expressed as dancing in later years. Others of us carry over the ideal of make believe, often expressed as pretending we’re too important to [...]
So I’m at a post-conference event, and there’s this couple. This couple stands out. For one thing, they’re smoking reds, which you hardly see anymore. The guy has a skull tattoo on his forearm and a look that suggests that he has never seen the inside of a cubicle. She seems to have painted on [...]
The following quote is from an article on Media Post. The quote appears early, in a section on education. As in, education is one of the three areas an executive needs to focus on to become successful on social media (the others being integration and ROI). “Trust: Teach executives to trust their teams and let [...]
This blog title could apply to so many areas of life, couldn’t it? Right now, I want to focus the lens here on our government. Here’s an article about a police chief who runs seminars for parents about how to spy on their kids online. Not “educate” them. Not “prepare them for the virtual world.” [...]
Here’s the scene: About four years ago, I was retained to work with an individual as her coach. We spent about six months together. Additionally, based on the work we were doing, she spent time with her boss and several of her boss’s peers. This was done with the full knowledge and blessing of said [...]
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