One of my students mentioned recently that he enjoyed the practice of self-examination.  I responded that I, too, enjoyed the exercise and that our class would be taking a closer look at this in the near future as we took up the subject of emotional intelligence.  In Daniel Goleman’s pioneering book, Primal Leadership, he makes […]

In my career, I have staged and choreographed hundreds of musical theatre productions, and a long time ago I started using the phrase, “This is art, not science.”  It came about while I was teaching a group of singers the movements to a musical sequence.  As I taught it, one person became frustrated with the […]

I remember a while back hearing the statement, “Flexibility is the sign of maturity.”  At the time, I know that I wasn’t the most flexible personally or professionally, and I felt that flexibility could also be a sign of weakness.  As a young man, I was determined and confident that my ways were the best, […]

I recently reviewed a book which I read a decade ago written by the late, great Zig Ziglar.  In his 2003 book Top Performance, he identifies a four-step process which he was using in order to build financial health in an organization, However, I believe it can be applied to virtually any area of our […]

I’m reading a new book right now from the authors of another great book, Crucial Conversations, which I read a few years ago.  This new one from Grenny, Patterson, Maxfield, McMillan, and Switzler just came out this year and is titled Influencer:  The New Science of Leading Change. They define leadership as “the capacity to […]