Wall Street Journal
Is The American Dream Dead? The Four Inconvenient Truths Behind Income Inequality
The four dirty little secrets behind income inequality that no one is talking about… recognizing the real source of income inequality and poverty in America.
The Business of Nonverbal Communication: How Signals Reflect Your Brand
Information is infinite and time is very finite. We are all looking for little poker “tells” that will give us an accurate appraisal of another’s character and motivations in the shortest amount of time.
5 Ways that Steve Jobs, Steve Denning, and Peggy Noonan are Dead Wrong
I’m a fan of Steve Denning and this column has repeatedly praised Steve Jobs. I religiously read Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal. But as another hero of mine, Popeye, would say, I’ve had all I can stands ‘cause I can’t stands no more. It’s time to right some wrongheaded thinking about why great companies die.
Leadership Secrets from a Navy SEAL
Even in great pain, faced with the test of his life, a Navy SEAL has to have the ability to step outside his own pain, put aside his own fear and ask: How can I help the guy next to me? Scientists constantly caution against “confirmation bias.” Confirmation bias is just a gussied up way of [...]
A Leadership Lesson from Meister Eckhart
If the only prayer you say in your life is “Thank You” that would suffice. - Meister Eckhart (1260-1327) The problem with a sure fire way for beating the stock market is that you have to keep it a secret. As soon as everybody starts doing it, it no longer works. I didn’t invent it, and [...]
Let Go of My Ego
…is probably the best CEO I’ve ever known, and his mantra is that success relies on the courage to “face facts.” He constantly challenges his number crunchers to come up with data that prove him wrong rather than right. Facing facts means “putting things in perspective” and “getting some distance.” When we become identified or “attached” to a business plan, product line, sales model, or pricing strategy this is exactly what we fail to do….
The Missing Elephant in the Bedroom
Jack Welch, GE’s former CEO and leadership maven made headlines by castigating Hewlett Packard’s board for gross negligence in the wake of the scandal that cost CEO, Mark Hurd, his job. However it was not the scandal per se that drew his ire, but that HP had done such a poor job in succession planning and overall leadership development.
