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As I think back at the end of the year, I realize how much I have learned this year and how my perspective has changed or been enriched by my reading, training, and experiences this year.  Some [...]

For much of my career, I would find myself angry with leaders who placed their personal interests above all else, whose courage failed them when faced with great needs for showing leadership, [...]

I like, so many of those of you reading this post, grew up in a culture where it is relatively easy to seek out and experience pleasure in many ways.  The very air is full of free and cheap [...]

In business—and in the knowledge creation fields, especially—we are under pressure to learn and adapt our mental models and practices to new information and knowledge rapidly and frequently.  [...]

There are only two people on this planet now who make me go weak in the knees in abject admiration when in their presence:  Nikki Giovanni and Norm Kerth.  They, in many ways, are not alike.  [...]

30 years ago, even 20 years ago, it was common to be asked to provide two personal references and two professional references when you applied for a job with a company with which you were not [...]

Like so many of you, I often work in organizations that are in a state of change and have been for some time. This state of constant change can be exhausting or exhilarating, but it is often [...]