You can’t turn on the TV for more than a few minutes without seeing an advertisement for a pill that promises to restore your memory to how it was before you began experiencing cognitive and memory issues. Really? We may be desperate, but we’re not that stupid. Put away your credit card and instead, go […]
When we stray from this humble surrender and try instead to dominate life, we set in motion that descending spiral – one that now threatens to carry our entire species into oblivion. Humans are already drifting toward extinction, a stark reality seen in metrics like fertility rates. In the United States, the average fertility rate […]
When we stray from this humble surrender and try instead to dominate life, we set in motion that descending spiral – one that now threatens to carry our entire species into oblivion. Humans are already drifting toward extinction, a stark reality seen in metrics like fertility rates. In the United States, the average fertility rate […]
This is the first in a six-part series (Surrender to the Living Universe: Re-wilding Our Hearts and Homes) exploring the inner and outer journey of rewilding—from surrender to soil, microbes to memory, and the sacred return to right relationship. Each reflection stands on its own, yet together they form a deeper arc: a remembering of […]
“The job is no longer any fun. I feel like I have spent the last seven years atop a giant marshmallow kicking down, only to watch as it slowly moves back to its existing shape.” So said William O. Spencer, the retiring CEO of Sherwin Williams paint company of Cleveland, Ohio in 1978. I didn’t […]
“I was a consultant for thirty-seven years.” “You know, you say that a lot. Maybe mix it up a little. Y’know, I was a consultant for a very long time. . . or almost forty years or something.” This is a conversation I had several times with Billie, my editor-wife, while writing Traveling the Consulting […]
When I first became a trainer, my kids were little, and I confess that I often used stories about them to illustrate the points I was teaching. Sometimes I even attached my children’s names to cute stories I read. I’m not necessarily proud of that, but those weren’t the worst lies I told in my […]
One morning at Heathrow “Chris wants to do something for the cabin crew.” “Sure, easy, I’ll go talk to him.” It was 1985. I was the project manager in the near final stages of the British Airways Managing People First Programme, (MPF), a one-week long, custom leadership training program for the top 1000 people at […]
In today’s digital age, distractions are everywhere—from the constant buzz of notifications to the endless stream of information at our fingertips. With so many demands on our attention, how do we stay focused on what truly matters? Maintaining focus is not just about personal productivity, but also essential to our mental clarity and overall well-being. […]
Here, in the United States of America, we just had the quadrennial shouting match we call our presidential elections. We are a very divided country. We have been divided since our founding according to how much government we want and where the locus of power should reside, federal, state, or local. Now we are also […]
