Sonny Rollins is probably the greatest tenor saxophone player in all of jazz. His journey from a novice 8 year-old player to today owes as much to effort as talent.... read more →
My grandfather used to tell me, “It only gets real at the point of action. Everything that happens before the action is just preamble.” Anyone who knew my grandfather understood... read more →
“Our language fails us when we discuss and practice leadership. We talk about ‘leaders’ in organizations or politics when we actually mean people in positions of management or political authority.... read more →
I have a quote taped to the wall in front of my computer. I don’t remember where I found it. It says “Run Towards the Volcano”. I was initially attracted... read more →
In just two weeks, Covid19 erased all my beliefs and assumptions about how the world works. It destroyed my business model. It isolated me from all of humanity. It eroded... read more →
This post completes our tour of John Isaacson’s three important attributes needed to develop leadership capacity: hunger, speed and weight. Here is John’s definition of weight: “Weight concerns how someone... read more →
Last week, I introduced John Isaacson and his three important attributes needed to develop leadership capacity: hunger, speed and weight. That post focused on hunger. This week, speed gets the... read more →
John Isaacson lives in Boston, Massachusetts. I have never met him, yet he has influenced both the work I do with clients and my personal life. A friend of... read more →
“The primary reason we do not work at areas in which we know we need to improve is that the rewards (and pleasures) are in the future; the disruption, discomfort... read more →
A scene from the movie 3 Kings starring George Clooney: “You’re scared, right?”“Maybe.”“The way it works is, you do the thing you’re scared s***less of, and you get the courage AFTER you do... read more →