Read the Words

Digitally speaking, writing or blogging is one of the coolest and easiest ways to share thoughts and insights (often referred to as opinions) that are outside the usual. Look for fresh insights and stories each week.

The Intelligence Trap

(Why We Need Misfits to Save Us) For the longest time, my biggest regret was failing the GMAT. Not because I desperately wanted an MBA. Because that exam was my ticket to an executive MBA program, as a mature student, fully paid for by my employer. That failure proved something I’d suspected my entire life:...

What AI Can’t Do (and why that matters for your relationships)

There’s a lot of noise about AI taking over pretty much everything. Productivity tools. Creative work. Strategic analysis. Even emotional support chatbots.Fine. Let me know how that works out for you when you’re sitting in a hospital waiting room at 2 a.m. Because here’s what AI can’t do • Show up when it’s inconvenient.• Remember...

Those Who Survive Chaos Don’t React Faster; They Sit Still Longer

I spent decades in boardrooms where the pressure was to DO something. Make the call, launch the initiative, give the board answers we didn’t have yet. The people who cracked under that pressure weren’t less intelligent. They just couldn’t tolerate the feeling of not knowing. So they’d react, pivot, and or overcorrect. They’d do anything...

Three Things Nobody Tells You About Goals

I’m six months out from hand surgery. Most people would be completely done and at 95% of what they used to be. As a member of the 1% outlier club, I can report that after a TON of work, I am finally at 75%-85%, with little upside remaining. AND I still have another six months...

Something Useful When Everything Feels Chaotic

We’re barely two weeks into 2026, and I’m guessing your “fresh start January” looks more like “higher level of insanity.” Every conversation I’ve had lately – regardless of continent – lands in the same place: shell-shocked by world events, frustrated by rising costs, dealing with some crisis at home. Makes concentrating on what actually matters...

It Came and Went

I’m referring, of course, to that loud strike of midnight between one year and the next. Have you noticed how we’ve all bought into this fiction that January 1st possesses some kind of transformative magic? As if the arbitrary point where we flip the calendar suddenly grants us a burst of willpower we didn’t have...

New Year, Old Wisdom

Every January, they’ll sell you the same thing with a new label. New strategies. New frameworks. New ways to scale faster, optimize harder, extract more efficiently. The world treats each calendar flip like collective amnesia — as if everything we knew last year is suddenly obsolete. I fell for it for decades; I bet you...

The Gift of Pause

Today, December 21st, the winter solstice arrives. It’s the darkest day of the year, when our ancestors had no choice but to stop. Not because they were lazy or unambitious, but because the world itself demanded it. Short days, long nights, and the simple biological truth that human beings cannot extract indefinitely without breaking. They...

When Ready Meets Opportunity

I’ve written all my life. For more than seven years, I’ve written to you every week. Not to sell, but to share. This approach baffles traditional business advisors. I see countless opportunities to monetize, optimize conversions, and deploy the usual email engagement tactics. I deliberately choose not to. Because the moment I cross that line,...

Getting From Here to There

Have you ever noticed that getting from ‘here’ to ‘there’ is NEVER a straight line? It’s a messy, uncomfortable unravelling of everything we thought we knew. We talk about transformation as if it were a decision. It’s one bold choice (I’ll start a new business, I’ll get a divorce, I’ll get back on my feet...