My friend Carl, who responds to a lot of posts here, made a statement last week that I found intriguing. He said “I think that every leader should know at least 5% more than any team member”. I disagreed of sorts, but I’ve been thinking about that comment ever since, which leads me to this […]
I’m a pretty consistent person. By that, I mean that I’m fairly stable in my demeanor and life as far as my emotions and actions go. I don’t get overly happy or upset on a regular basis. I go through my days pretty much the same with some ups here and downs there. When I […]
I have a story for you, if I may. Last Thursday I asked my wife if she’d take a look at my foot because I was having problems seeing if it was bruised or not. She looked at it, said it looked like it was bruised a little, and that we should keep an eye […]
Often when I talk about leadership, I like to say that everyone can be a leader, and at some point in every person’s life they’ve had a chance to be a leader, and have either taken that opportunity or let it go. Sometimes, the option is to either be heroic or be a victim. Sometimes, […]
Years ago I went to meet with a group of people that I didn’t know in another town about 2 hours away. It was a group meeting of members of the New York state chapter of the National Speakers Association, of which I was a member. The topic was finding ways to get more speaking […]

