If you’re a betting person, then here’s a good bet with great odds: bet that people stay the same more than they change. Most people have...

Our family has belonged to the YMCA down the road since it opened many years ago. I served on the board for a few years, two of our...

Mixing love and money is mighty tricky (please feel free to quote me on this, as long as you leave "mighty" in). There are a thousand...

A long time ago I waited tables at a nice restaurant in Savannah, Georgia. Savannah is home to a large Irish Catholic population, and St....

Selling is noble work, and from my perspective life is just one long sales call. We humans are "pack" animals who need each other to be...

Has Elon Musk become the poster child for overachievers who are rich and unhappy? I think I get it--setting stretch goals and being rich...

Put another way, when is a convenient time to have more fun and make more money? Well, of course the obvious answers are "never" and...

I don't hear as much talk about Douglas McGregor's Theory X & Theory Y these days. That's a shame because it's a very helpful model for...

I trust you're familiar with the fallout from the Wells Fargo "make a buck any way you can" fiasco. It's just another in a long line of...

I've been around the strategic planning game for quite a while now, and people keep telling me that strategic differentiation is...

So I'm sitting in class during graduate school, and one of the worst professors we've ever had makes one more arbitrary, disorganized,...

My colleague and I were talking recently about how often business leaders that we know don't do what they say they'll do. It could be...

Well, of course it's important, but how? I've learned a lot about fundraising over the past few months, and my current perspective is...

Are you thinking about becoming an entrepreneur? Are you already one but things aren't going as well as you'd prefer? Do you have the...

Anytime I hear a CEO say, "My employees are lazy and they don't care about the company," or "Nobody wants to work anymore," it's a red...

The Beatles broke up way too soon. John Lennon and Paul McCartney were one of the most prolific and successful songwriting teams in...

No, this is not a real bulletin (sorry Mr. Blank), but imagine if it were. If we assume that the main goals of the Atlanta Falcons are:...

Since we live in a society in which we have freedom of choice, the primary limiters of our happiness and success are our unrealistic...

By definition high achievers expose themselves to a lot of stress which can cause emotional distress. I'm amazed that some of these folks...

Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean states that many things turn out best when practiced with moderation and with balance. Unfortunately...