Ancient History “Oh Wow!” Human beings have gotten cricks in our necks staring at the night sky for a long time. The Lascaux caves in France, dating from 30,000 years ago have a graphical representation of the Pleiades; a carved mammoth ivory tusk carbon dated to 32,500 years ago has what may be the oldest […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" Leaders require followers n u201cIf you think youu2019re a leader look over your shoulder. If there is no one there, you might just be delusional.u201d n u201cI get what youu2019re saying, but. . .u201d n I was delivering leadership development; it wasnu2019t really training per se. Oh we did apply some new […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" The Ancient Late Adopter speaks n Let us be clear, I am old. I started as a consultant in 1980; I retired as a consultant five years ago. Most of what I write about consulting comes from those thirty-seven years. I look back over my career and try to extract lessons from […]
Acme Grand Opening It was a sunny spring Saturday and I was on a roll. When I worked, Saturdays were all about errands and it was only ten-fifteen and, man, I was checking things off the old index card to-do list to beat the band. I’d dropped and picked up shirts and taken shoes off […]
Improvement and Innovation Over my thirty-seven years as a change consultant, I worked on a lot of improvement and innovation projects. These are similar but different methodologies. The people who work on these methodologies tend to focus on the differences. Improvement often makes an existing product or process better, whereas innovation tends to invent new […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" A fun and fascinating read on early psychedelic research n u201cMy book about Tim is up on Amazon. I hope youu2019ll read it and if you like it tell some other people about it. He was an important person in my life and it was an important time. Psychedelics took on a […]
A conversation It was a story I heard more than once. Different people told the story often making a slightly different point. Some told it to make the Great Gatsby point, “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” Some told the story as real success advice –“listen […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" n u201cOK, Alan. If youu2019re interested in us, Iu2019d be interested in you. Iu2019ll need to talk to Sam, my partner. He may want to meet you.u201d n n I had been a booking agent selling engagements for celebrity speakers on college campuses for six years. I was twenty-six years old.u00a0 I […]
Two roads diverged . . . Perhaps you read “The Road Not Taken” in school. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and I — I took the one less travelled by and that has made all the difference.” My English teacher told me this was about Robert Frost’s choice to become a poet, […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" Eeeyou! n That is how many people react to bugs. Theyu2019re disgusting, disease-spreading, creepy-crawly creatures. Perhaps the feeling is mutual; there is little reliable data about how insects react to humans. They may be conflicted; we are both food source and predator to them. n Insects may be completely indifferent to humans. […]
