It took me a long time to be okay with being wrong. In fact, I used to be deathly afraid of it. Looking back, I believe that my fear of being wrong is something I learned…

I just finished reading Peter Sim’s Little Bets (great read, recommended by my good friend Janine Saunders) and was struck by a section that describes the difference between lucky and unlucky people.  I’m sharing it…

One of my most valuable business (and life) lessons has been learning to adapt my communication style to appeal to the values and communication preferences of my audience. Literary theory tells us not only that others are fundamentally incapable…

I take it for granted that I know better than to believe everything I read or hear; and that the people I know, work with, and choose to spend my time with are critical thinkers…

I’ve learned to embrace an iterative process. It hasn’t come easily. At the age of nine, I committed myself to keeping a daily journal. When I would (occasionally and invariably) miss a day, I’d play…

Jim Collins devotes a small chapter in Built to Last to the idea of embracing “and” rather than “or.”  (You can see the book summarized in Collins’ article “Building Companies to Last” here.)  Collins refers to “the tyranny…

Why We’re Afraid to ask for What we Want We’ve all been brought up hearing “no.”  Don’t touch that; don’t do that; no, you can’t have that.  Likewise, we’ve been taught that wanting things is bad.  Plato writes…

I don’t remember which book I read it in, though (typical of the way my memory works) I remember the couch I was sitting on when I read it. I read that the largest difference…