People learn about having a strategy in many ways. One way I learned about strategy was playing Monopoly as a kid. My goal was always to win, of course, but also to build enough wealth to withstand landing on a hoteled Park Place or Boardwalk. Making various sets of choices in different games — from [...]

A little unsure about what to write about tonight, I decided to check out YouTube. I went there and typed in the key word “leadership”  — and a whole slew of videos came up. I started watching two of them, but both were too long and didn’t resonate. But this one did: You need to [...]

Well, the last of the Kennedy brothers is now gone. That big smile, that stentorian voice, that wonderful people-oriented mindset … all gone now. We’ll miss him more that we yet realize, because his footprint is in more places that we can yet understand. I hope that a health care bill can pass. I am [...]

Twitter again! This time, from a Wally  Bock tweet, it led me to an article about Dr. Henry Mintzberg, Cleghorn Professor of Management at McGill University and well known management scholar. Mintzberg had lots to say about what managers do, but his description of good managers is the part I liked best: “Peter Drucker said [...]

I am addicted to Sudoku. I work these number puzzles frequently, and have graduated from “Light and Easy” to “Beware, Extremely Challenging!” The easier puzzles are a snap for me now (most of the time, anyway), while the more difficult ones take longer, require more sophisticated logic, and make it much easier for me to [...]