A friend and mentor recently died, after what his daughter described as a long illness. I had no idea he was sick.  Reading the post from his daughter got me thinking - why do we retreat behind closed curtains and doors, withdraw from society, and go dark when we become ill?

We have been having an interesting debate over the two weeks or so since I saw what I initially thought was a simple post in a Facebook networking group. The post asked the group about their thoughts on the thumbs-up emoji (👍) and if they felt it to be okay in business...

In some random conversation we had yesterday, the topic of reading literacy levels in this country came up. Current stats show that about 20% of adults are illiterate, and about 55% read below a 6th-grade level. Damien and I have discussed the marketing messages we put out...

What used to be an occasional conversation between Damien and me is an almost daily one now (I have even touched upon it in three different posts: Book Brew 33, Book Brew 66, Book Brew 77.) There appears to be a growing issue with people not acknowledging others - whether...

There seems to be an increasing divide amongst so many different groups. This group is for women only; that group is for C-Suite executives only; the other group is for people in this town only; and so on. While I recognize that there is a place for creating community...

How often do we sharpen our saws?  I know for me, it isn’t often enough and I have the bad habit of continuing to push myself when my body is screaming for rest.

Why do we avoid making decisions? In some cases, it has to do with the choice architecture of the thing to be decided upon. We might not have any opportunity to practice our options.  Thaler and Sunstein say, "Practice makes perfect (or at least better). Unfortunately, some...

A little story time. A few months back, Damien took one of our vehicles in for its annual state inspection to a local place that does inspections, but it’s primary business is tire sales. It passed inspection, and he drove it home. On the way home, he noticed that the tire...

At the beginning of this quarter, one of my ABC Model goals was to write no less than three and no more than five posts per week (one of the tactics from Effortless that I wrote about in Book Brew 43). While I have written a few posts so far this quarter, they haven’t been...

Damien and I have had many conversations about our upbringings and how vastly different they were. In one of our recent conversations, we got on the subject of how those around us, while we were growing up (and in some cases even still today), tend to put up walls. We were...