“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” – Admiral Jim Stockdale

We are all probably familiar with the above excerpt from Jim Collins’ book Good […]

. . . to find success and fulfillment you must understand who you are, what your unique value is to your business, and adopt an entrepreneurial mindset of continually marketing yourself and your expertise.

The above brief excerpt from my book The Future of You! Creating Your Enduring Brand provides what […]

For anyone who remembers the show MASH, you will undoubtedly recall the episode about Hawkeye’s friend from home named Tommy.

He was a soldier on the front lines writing a book titled “You Never Hear The Bullet”, discussing how, unlike in the movies, death on the battlefield can be sudden and without drama. In a sad […]

The other day I read an article by Kelly Barner titled “What if there is no value in what you’re doing?”

While Barner was posing this question from the standpoint of being a procurement professional, it is nonetheless a powerful yet simple question that all of us at one point […]

“Experiencing a toxic boss (female) at the moment, complete nightmare. I went on medical leave 4 months after starting a new job and when I returned I was given 2 work options. I picked the small project option. She has set out to sabotage it for the entire 8 months I have been working on […]

During an interview a few days after a heartbreaking loss at this year’s Super Bowl, Seattle coach Pete Carroll admitted that he awoke in the middle of the night and just wept.

It was a memorable moment in a week of memorable moments, for many reasons.

Besides the admission by a coach from the rough and tumble […]