
“It’s the most powerful thing there is” – John Wooden John Wooden is a basketball coaching legend – in his 27 years at UCLA, his teams had a winning percentage of 81%, and they won a unfathomable 10 NCAA titles. He was also a lifetime student of leadership and personal development, creating what he called the “Pyramid …

It was bound to happen. A novelty becomes a fad, a fad becomes a phenomenon, a phenomenon becomes an industry. At that point, it just gets more and more serious. Words and phrases like “business applications”, “return on investment”, “leveraging”, “strategy”, “optimization”, and “experts”, just to name a few, get tossed around with reckless abandon. Eventually, …

Chris Garrett makes it quite clear that he’s in the “business” of blogging and new media- it’s right there on his very popular web site, ChrisG.com. And if you are ever fortunate enough to spend any time with him, it’s also quite clear he is a person who knows a LOT about those things, and …

Today I’m launching my new site design (thank you Thesis and Jesse Petersen!). It was just time, given that blog platforms are evolving faster than Twitter is gaining new users (well, maybe not quite that fast). This “rock” needed to be turned over and examined. Not because there was something so wrong about how my …

In our quest to become great leaders we take on a constant stream of internal battles. Each and every day we choose our sides and try to do the right things, with the objective of achieving something great. There are 10 confrontations in particular that can make or break us, and we need to consistently …