The Bell
Up the road from my house is a field. As I pass this field, I see the same two horses. They look normal, yet one always follows the other. One day, I decided to stop my car to watch them. And then it struck me: one of the two horses was blind…
Run, Baby Run
"Run, Baby, Run!" So urged the frantic mother of her Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School son in Parkland, Fl, when he called her to tell her there was a shooter at the school. On Valentine’s Day…
Yes, There Really Was a Man-In-The-Moon
On summer Sundays in Minnesota, the parks and lakes dotting the Twin Cities welcome couples and families, soaking up 85-degree heat much as chipmunks store nuts for the coming winter…
From The Jaws of Disaster
Fifty years ago, on April 11, 1970, three astronauts roared away from Kennedy Space Center aboard the third Apollo mission to put men on the moon. Over the next five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes, NASA defied overwhelming odds to snatch Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert and Apollo 13 from the abyss…
Hiring Is Only Step #1: Next, Up the Odds of Success
If you are involved in hiring, you understand the process all too well. First, too much time passes by as we put up with mediocre performance. Or we dither on filling a position that needs filling, probably because we want to be sure we have the sales before we invest in the infrastructure…
Inboarding Sets Employees Up for Success
If onboarding is such a great business idea – and it is – why should it be reserved for only new employees? Maybe the time has come to give inboarding a try. Onboarding is more than just a solution for employees with the new job jitters…
Completed Staff Work
“Completed staff work” is the analysis of a problem and the presentation of a solution in such form that all that remains to be done on the part of the supervisor is to approve or disapprove the completed action…
Live So the World Cries and You Rejoice
In 2009, fifty years after I graduated from Miami University (Ohio), a friend asked me, “If you went back for your reunion, what would you say to today’s grads? It’s so different now. Do you think what we have learned would mean much to today’s crop?...
Memorial Day
Set aside a few minutes on this Memorial Day. Shut your eyes. And imagine an unbroken column of march, ghost warriors shoulder-to-shoulder and ten wide, stretching back across our history for 100 hard miles...
My Words and My Time
I decided to post, as my first-ever blog, an article I wrote for a newsletter some three years ago. I was dealing with cancer, and the many thoughts one has when fighting for time and life…
My Baker’s Dozen
The most important conversations are often those I would rather avoid. The most challenging are those I must have with myself. The outcome must be truth...
Rabbi Zusya of Anipol
In the Hasidic world of Eastern Europe, in the late eighteenth century, there lived a sage by the name of Rabbi Zusya of Anipol. He was loved by all who knew him for his piety and his humility...
Statue of Liberty
Terrorism is a stark and frightening example of what others can do to us. Paris. San Bernardino. The Pulse nightclub. A vehicle attack in NYC, killing eight. Too much, too often. And in the face of such an onslaught, leadership is what we choose to do about it, and how we go about doing it…
