Can you guess the most important word in the world? If you said Empathy, I’m guessing you have a healthy amount of it. We could use more people like you! Have you noticed a deficit of Empathy lately? I’m talking in particular about a shortage of Empathy, as well as Caring, among members of certain […]
Do you feel like a phony? A fraud? That a lot of your good fortune is just that – a lot of luck that you didn’t fully earn? Do you feel no matter how hard you try, you’ll never fulfill the potential you were told you had when you started working? Welcome to Imposter Syndrome […]
‘Unsplash photo by Matt Botsford’ Have you seen this “Help Wanted” ad? Stress-free position with leisurely pace (more tortoise than hare). Make your own office hours. Better yet, stay home, we trust you (not that we have a choice at the moment; just because we’re paying you doesn’t mean we have a right to […]
At the most recent salon of my Millennial Advisory Board (MAB) – which meets monthly – I started off by wondering aloud to the group why 2022 has not produced a definitive “summer song,” as in past years. I was quickly corrected by a couple of MABers, who pointed to Bad Bunny, the wildly popular […]
Every cloud has a silver lining. As stressful and problematic as the pandemic has been the past two years, it also contained golden opportunities for people. Not just any people. I’m talking about people who are disciplined in learning their craft. I’m talking about people willing to sweat it out to continually improve their skill […]
I’ll admit it. I am one tough customer. Why shouldn’t I be? Because I also am one very good customer. I’m no different from anyone who regularly patronizes a place of business, spending a considerable amount of money, and naturally likes to be treated not just as another customer, but as a loyal customer. A […]
Every generation experiences one or more devastating events of historic proportion. It might be a major war or economic collapse or a terror attack on our own land. But the Covid-19 pandemic is something else altogether: I’ve never seen anything like it. Just about nobody alive has. Whether or not we know someone who has […]
There used to be something called The Generation Gap. That was an expression commonly used when Baby Boomers were the Gen Z of their era — the younger generation. A big deal was made at the time about the many differences that separated teenagers and 20somethings from their parents and grandparents. There were multiple flashpoints […]
Whenever I’m working with, or speaking with, someone of a different generation — whether it’s Millennial, Gen Z, Gen X — one expression they’ll never hear me say is “When I was your age …” I honor the past, where appropriate. But I don’t worship it. And I definitely don’t live in it. There’s only […]
Bruce Springsteen recently led the long awaited return of Broadway by bringing back his award-winning one-man show. My wife Stephanie and I enjoyed seeing Springsteen on Broadway when it first opened in 2017. The Boss shares fascinating stories about his life, including one that instantly resonated with me. Imagine yourself an 8-year-old who has no […]
