Your Work Year Ahead: You Were Made For This
By now you’re back in the saddle at work. You enjoyed the holiday season, but you also realize that sitting around in a cookie-induced torpor while trying to recall what… Continue Reading...
Jeff Bezos and Choosing: A Story
Here’s a great story, delivered by Jeff Bezos during his commencement address at Princeton in 2010 (video of speech, transcript).
On one particular trip, I was about… Continue Reading...
Epictetus: Lifting By The Other Handle
It has become fashionable for people to say that “the definition of insanity is continuing to do things the same way while expecting a different result”. I first heard this… Continue Reading...
James Mattis and the OODA Loop
There are many frameworks to organize a complex action. They help us organize complexity into something we can understand and act upon. They are invaluable because they enable us to… Continue Reading...
Where the Magic Happens
I was on an internal company call recently when a presenting co-worker passed along something she tells the exercise classes she teaches in the evenings: “outside your comfort zone is… Continue Reading...
Are You a Fox or a Hedgehog?
“It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future”
This Danish aphorism is a humorous way to acknowledge the difficulty in making predictions. The more you read about how… Continue Reading...
