A version of this post was first shared in 2014, then expanded upon in my first book, Stones Across the River: The Path to Your Best Work in Your Peak Years. Whether considering customer deals, [...]

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility. Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men The Realities of Control Control. Oh, how we want it. We want to know what to do to create [...]

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one characteristic we must posses if we are to [...]

Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the pastI know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast Bob Dylan Our world has a natural ebb and flow to it. The tides come in and retreat, rhythmically, [...]

In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell A few weeks ago, we attended a college commencement ceremony. Though attendance was limited, we were fully masked, and [...]

The path of least resistance is rarely the path of wisdom. Tim Cook Let’s take a few minutes and talk about meaningful dialogue. Our airwaves are full of the massive self-promotion, virtue [...]

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster    And treat those two impostors just the same; Rudyard Kipling, from “If” Take a few minutes and consider the defining [...]

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time. Peter Drucker Our company was recently recognized by [...]

The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of [...]

[We] have to let go in order to be; we have to stop forcing ourselves, or we will never enter our own belonging. John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom Life is challenging and [...]