Dana from a conferencing company approached me at a recent speaking engagement. She said “I had to meet you, you have done something no one has ever done…I cold called you and RETURNED MY CALL and told me that you were not interested. No one ever does that!”

I am always proud that I try answer […]

I heard the other day that Greeks never wrote obituaries. After someone died, they only asked one question: Did they live with passion?

Today, you’ll notice something different about the blog. Scott at Adjustafresh worked with me to redesign the blog so it looks more like the rest of the site. I also added a few other features that are common with other bloggers.

A polling mechanism (Do you like this blog?), blogs worth a read and books […]

We all know that when we are in an elevator, we all watch the numbers of the floors as it goes up or down..until recently. Many elevators now come equipped with a small video screen that tells us about recent events, the weather, or the stock market.

I love to watch this screen instead of the […]

When I spoke at Northwestern University last week, a parent of one of the students who came to hear me speak asked me if I did commencement addresses….I wish.

The Chicago Tribune published a bunch of commencement addresses for the season and I particularly liked this part of Bill Cosby’s:

Whatever it is you’re going for, you […]

I speak alot about how important in business (and life) it is to ride the rollercoaster up and down through good and bad times…through bad and good times. Zen says that life is about “10,000 Joys and 10,000 Sorriws” (as business is).

This was shown to me yesterday when my son played in is Park District […]