One of the influential books in my life was The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey.  Though published in 1989, it’s still in print and judged to be one of the best 10 leadership books ever written.  It’s still in publication over 30 years later. While I highly recommend that you get […]

Our colleague Casey Fletcher sent this to me.  He harvested it from an old file.  We’ve been working together for 40-plus years.  We saw this quote in our early days as teammates.  It resonated then.  It resonates now.    “In Africa, every morning a gazelle awakens knowing that it must outrun the fastest lion if it wants to stay alive”   […]

“We don’t rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training.” – Attributed to Archilochus, Greek soldier, circa 650 B.C. One of the neat outcomes of these notes is that through the years of writing them and reading them, we refine our joint understanding of how best to think, […]

Instead of asking, “How do I feel?” you should be asking yourself, “What do I do?” Trevor Moawad was an advocate of neutral thinking.  Here’s the idea: The past is the past.  What happened, happened.  There’s not a thing you can do to change it. Feeling down.  Feeling sorry.  Losing energy because of a negative […]