And in other news… I wrote a book. No, it’s not a business book. It’s more of a bedtime story I wrote for my daughter. I started it when she was 10. Figuring I’d need six months to pump it out, I gave myself two years to do it. I…
And speaking of the richest man in the world… I recently stumbled on a great book on Amazon. It’s called “The Pumpkin Plan“. It’s a bit of a 23andMe test for entrepreneurial business owners. Why the title…Have you ever seen those giant pumpkins? Those 300 pound behemoths that make the…
I’m not a big basketball fan, but I was extremely intrigued to hear Phil Jackson on the radio they other day. Jackson talked about working with the basketball players he coached over a long and illustrious career. (Jackson was the coach for the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers.) He talked…
One of the CEOs in my CEO peer group gave me a book to read. It’s called “It Starts with Food” by Dallas and Melissa Hartwig. If you haven’t read it, you should. It’s a great read and it will change your life in unexpected ways. I would divide the…
When you think of powerful women who do you think of? Hillary Clinton? Benazir Bhutto? Or maybe Diane Sawyer or Sarah Palin? Like these powerful woman, Cleopatra didn’t let notions of gender get in the way of her ambition and her desire to define life on her own terms. But none…
Let’s face it: your employee performance reviews suck. Your employees hate them because they worry that it will impact their pay. Managers hate doing them. Nobody is happy! So why do we keep doing them? Surely there must be a better way? That was the premise for our meeting this…
One of our group’s goals has been to participate in more of the online content available from Vistage. It’s there. We just want to discipline ourselves to use it more. On Friday, February 7, Alan Gregerman, president and chief innovation officer of VENTURE WORKS, Inc., will present, “The Necessity of Strangers:…
Every one of the CEO’s in my peer group is interested in self-improvement. (It’s a self-selecting lot. Why join a peer group if you don’t want to improve, right?) The other day, we were talking a bit about what to read this year. It wasn’t a formal discussion, although it…
Just picked up Daniel Pink’s book. According to the Washington Post’s website, this was chosen by leaders as one of the best books of 2013. Have you read it? Thoughts?
You’ve probably heard it said about creativity that you should think “outside” the box. Popular theory espouses that you need to do some “brainstorming” to get ideas that are new and creative. The authors of “Inside the Box” have a different theory. Their approach is to think “inside” the box.…