I was talking to a friend the other day and she mentioned how much more productive she is when she starts with an idea about something rather than feeling like she has to take some kind of action. She referred to the latter as coming from a place of anxiety whereas the former comes from a place of generativity. Research suggests that we have something like 60,000 ideas go through our heads everyday but we rarely stop to pay attention...

No one wants to look stupid, but sometimes it’s okay to be stupid. I’m always surprised about how dumb I was 2 weeks ago and my recognizing that helps me forgive myself and take a risk on something else that I may not know how to do. The practice of reaching beyond what you know  what to do is the best way  to learn how to do it  

Most organizations love to say that their people come first and then the business strategy. That phrase is designed to help people think you like them more than the business but that is not what people want to hear. What they want to hear is what the business is all about and how they can help the business succeed.

My copies of Strategy Driven Leadership arrived at my door this week. Dr. Jonas Salk, the pioneer researcher who developed the polio vaccine while working here at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine was once quoted as stating that “our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.” Forebearers of the Iroquois Nation understood the importance of how their actions today would impact their world going forward 7 generations from that moment. We’re usually so caught up in our own...

How do you like being called a millennial or boomer? I can certainly agree that being called a Globalist would be cool as it would kind of mandate that you have to travel around the world to maintain that moniker. Yesterday, I had the pleasure to hear Anna Liotta, the current president of the National Speaker’s Association speak to the local Pittsburgh chapter about her work in what she calls the “Generational Codes”

important skills that are used every day in our work settings. My primary concern is about the fact that many senior business leaders continue to think of “hard skills” as being those that drive business success while the other skills are nice to have and help people feel better in the workplace. Soft skills, as a result  have always taken a back seat to these other skills that were always seen as more important to job success, which we now...