October 2014: Hard Work or Dumb Luck?
I spent the hot summer days of my early teen years painting our three story house. From the upper rungs of a ladder, I swatted away wasps...
September 2014: Speed Traps
“Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.” Mark Twain Last year, a nationally-known business leader suggested I write a...
August 2014: Capacity to Choose vs. Need to Avoid
When I get home from work and decide to have a drink, I am not demonstrating alcoholism. When my long-time friend, Alan, was in active...
July 2014: Living and Leading With Paradoxes
“We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable...
June 2014: Opening our Minds to the Unfamiliar
A man I’ll call Andrew Erickson, a 50-year-old executive, told me he outworks just about everybody he knows. The other day, his sister...
May 2014: Making Good Decisions
For most, major decisions are a fact of life. Impactful life decisions include the following: Do I want to pursue college education or...