Last weekend, I found myself at the customer service desk of our local hardware store, returning what should have been a simple kitchen tool: a mandolin slicer. For the uninitiated, a mandolin is traditionally a straightforward yet notoriously dangerous kitchen gadget designed to help you slice and dice everything from potatoes to your fingertips equally...

I’ve been noticing a trend gaining more and more traction over at least the last decade. You’ve seen it, too, and we all use different words to describe a similar pattern.  Disaggreable. Divisive. Unrelenting. Off-putting. Even alienating.   No, I am NOT talking about politics. Instead, how we humans seem to view ourselves and the...

When I was eighteen, my parents separated, and my father made it clear to me that it would be best for me to get a secretarial job, as funding his retirement plan was more important than supporting my higher education goals. At the time, I was devastated, and yet it all turned out for the...

  I don’t know about you, but the entire world seems like one big dumpster fire burning entirely out of control these days. The news papers and programs, all social media, and most of our in-person conversations are filled with the shock and horror of what’s going on and why. I do not have ADHD,...

Last week, a reader called my opinion piece out. He said, “ You overlooked one thing that must be done in order to break free. Each individual must admit to themselves that “I don’t know.” I don’t know about something I have not experienced. I don’t know because I can’t really imagine. I don’t know...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how we arrive at our opinions. Not from the point of view of who is wrong but HOW on earth our opinions can be so divergent. I don’t have the answers yet, but I’d like to share a few ideas with you.   In a world where opinions...

It’s another true confession time. The penny dropped when I recently interviewed my latest guest about Compassion in the workspace. For years, I have bragged about improving a business’s net income before taxes from 8% to 35% of revenue in three years. YES, that was definitely significant, and no, I didn’t cut people, chop expenses...

This is the last Sunday of the LOVE month. And I want to turn to something that is too often deemed esoteric, fluff and silly. Love of Self. Love for Self. Self Love. I think it’s a fundamental pillar of our existence. Personal Confession: It took me decades to understand the concept, and I’m not...

How was your Valentine’s Day? Full of mushy kisses and Hallmark moments, or flowers and candlelight dinners? Something else? I thought I’d ease up on the business tales and shower you with thoughts on love. I follow a Harvard Business School Professor because … well… he bills himself as ‘Building a Happier World.’ Too often...

Remember in 2014 when Gwyneth Paltrow shared her use of the term conscious uncoupling?  It was all about a mindful and respectful way to end a relationship. That phrase has been rolling around my brain cells for a few weeks now. So too has the term domestic violence.   How might the world engage in...