Last week I met a guy I’ve known for a long time for lunch. I wanted to meet him because I’ve known him for a long time, and I know he’s struggled with his career. I had once mentioned an idea to him that I thought he could pull off well, based on the little […]
Yesterday I watched in disbelief as the jury in Florida found this young woman, whose name I’m not mentioning in the post though I’m sure it’ll come up somewhere eventually, not guilty in the death of her daughter. In a case I thought I knew really well, I was stunned by what I heard, then […]
A few days ago on Twitter someone put out a statement that, in her opinion, the biggest cause of leadership failure was ego. I wrote back saying it was up there, but it wasn’t the biggest cause. She wrote back asking what I thought it was and I responded that the biggest cause of leadership […]
Last week I had lunch with a friend of mine. We were talking about each other’s businesses and our profile, so to speak, on Twitter. He said that in general he liked things I said, but wished I didn’t concentrate on race as much. I said a lot of things to him in explaining why […]
Today is the 10th anniversary of my officially starting my business. It came 2 weeks after my last “regular” job ended and I had taken some time to think about it. I actually hadn’t come to the full belief that I was going to end up being self employed, even though I was getting my […]

