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  In Raymond Carver’s indelible story What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, we are treated to an unconventional discussion with four people (two couples) about love. Apart from being one of the better short stories you’ll ever read, the subject, love, seems to present something of a…

  So I’ve hit the wall, in a sense. I am not sure where things need to head in my vocational life, but it is pretty clear that they are currently not headed in the right direction. I know these things happen in all of our adult lives, so I…

    After about three decades of working almost entirely in a consulting capacity, I was thinking about all the miles and miles of work I’ve done. This thinking started to make me feel more than a bit tired. I then realized I am tired because I have done so…

  In some of my earliest memories, I can remember my parents quarreling while the kids were presumably asleep – in our younger years, my brother and I were sent off to bed at our nightly prescribed time: 8pm. This was no problem for my brother who was always off…

  In the The Infinite Game, Simon Sinek outlines the stark contrast between the short-term focused thinking that has become such a large part of our enterprises and the seemingly rare, long-term focus that is found within certain endeavors where we feel we are “…contributing to something bigger than ourselves,…

What does a Level 5 Leader Look Like? Jim Collins’s classic book on what it takes to move a good organization to greatness (Collins, Jim, Good to Great, 2001, HarperCollins Publishers Inc.) puts a lot of faith in the “Level 5 Leader(s)” that seem to be a major factor in…

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  Anyone who has worked with me for an extended period of time would agree there is an aspect of my personality that could easily get me labelled a Gap Finder. What’s a Gap Finder? I may have made up this term (I am honestly not sure if I’ve heard…

In the New Yorker’s recent book review of Emotional Intelligence (Goleman, Daniel, Bloomberg Publishing, 2020) – on the occasion of the book’s 25th Anniversary Edition – reviewer Merve Emre takes a deeper look into what has driven the success of the whole Emotional Intelligence movement (as Emre notes, “in the…