Ready To Take The Pledge?

Listen to the audio version of this post here.   Tell me if this sounds familiar? I’m on a webinar – there are a lot of those, these days, right? It’s a subject I genuinely want to know more about, and the woman who’s running the thing is clearly an expert. So, I start out…

Another F*ing Growth Opportunity

Listen to the audio version of this post here.   You hear people talking about lemons and lemonade … rainbows in the aftermath of a storm … and the search for the silver lining. I’m on board with the effort to look at the bright side when things are bleak. I always say it’s in…

Fancy Meeting You Here

We’re all Zooming now, aren’t we? Or Skyping. Or maybe you’re using an enterprise videoconferencing system while your whole company is working from home. You know I’m eager to return to face-to-face communication. And, it doesn’t look like that’s happening soon. We should all get better at the virtual meetings that are (and may remain)…

Can we stop “distancing” already?

We know from years of research that human connection is critical to our well-being. That loneliness is toxic. That we need relationship to each other. And yet here we are. With everyone from the federal government to the mayor to our doctors telling us (over and over and over 🙄) to practice “social distancing.” Can…

Who Gets Your Attention? Are You Sure?

Maybe this will be familiar to you. I’m watching the news, deeply engrossed in some story about the latest outrage in Washington D.C. and pondering what I might post about it. Gradually, I become vaguely aware of this familiar sound coming from my left. Wait, is that … It could be … Yes, I think…