Doris dropped the F-bomb late last year. She was 98. It landed exactly as intended! I just got back from a couple of weeks in the far north of Ontario, where we celebrated my mother-in-law’s 99th trip around the sun. She still lives in her own home. She has all her marbles. Every. Single. One. […]
The Mirror Series: Extraction, Complicity, and What We Build From Here
Part Four into a deep dive of Richard David Hames’ essay, “Beyond The Cracked Mirror: The Psychic Contract of a Dying Paradigm”
The Mirror Series: Extraction, Complicity, and What We Build From Here
Part Three into a deep dive of Richard David Hames’ essay, “Beyond The Cracked Mirror: The Psychic Contract of a Dying Paradigm”
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 […]
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 […]
Design for the Margins: Climate Communication That Actually Works
I was chatting with a dear friend the other day when our conversation turned to what makes certain people and cultures truly stand out in business and life. Here’s what I’ve always believed: no person is inherently better than another, regardless of their origin or appearance. The loudest voice isn’t always the smartest one. […]
What if the key to understanding—and acting on—climate change lies not in distant data, but in our own backyards, memories, and conversations?
I decode what’s already making you exceptional and build it into a strategy you can use deliberately. 30 years, 70 acquisitions, 10 dispositions and more than 40 financial reengineering projects, including one bankruptcy I personally chaperoned all the way through to the trustee’s office, which I mention not to brag but because it is genuinely […]