The human side of business
Can you stay with me long enough to tolerate a low-hanging metaphor?I promise not to stay here long. I was laying ant traps the other day due to an infestation in my master bathroom. After placing each plastic death square in key pathways, I took a moment to observe. Would they be like bees to honey (or ants to insecticide…
The story is (so often) in the telling. I love how parallel messages appear in our lives in unforeseen ways. Often, a theme will reveal itself in one channel (work) but repeat itself in another (parenting, friendship), despite the fact that the situations have nothing to do with each other. In my own life, these recurring patterns often support and…
When it comes to needing answers, should we examine, analyze and push? Or, is there also a time to allow, observe and… do nothing, for now? In other words, might we get a better definition by allowing one to reveal itself? When a business struggles or a disparity is uncovered; when one person in a relationship needs a concrete direction…
If you don’t do it, you can bet on what will happen.If you do, what will happen is anyone’s guess. Big or small, grand or granular, regret is an effective litmus test for action. It’s natural to perseverate over certain decisions, but when put through the framework of regret, the question gets clearer. So… If you don’t do it, you…
“New Year, New You.” Cliched and virtually invisible in its ubiquity, this over-used – arguably useless – marketing message is still (to my amazement) in rotation. Not to be a bummer, but… A new year is not necessarily an opportunity for a new you. A new year is the passing of time that, in this case, happens to be positioned as a…
What happens to our belief in the fantastical… once we know better? This year, I found myself at a high-stakes pivot with my kids, smack dab in the crosshairs of a zero-gray area dilemma. Do I reveal or do I conceal? As a parent, you get used to the daily toggle between what you disclose (about life and death, headlines,…
