I have the honor and the privilege of working with the CEO Connection, an exclusive organization comprised of CEOs leading companies with more than $100 million in revenues. Part of my role includes spending time on the phone with CEOs who have been nominated to join the organization, discussing the culture that they’ll find within […]
It’s been amply chronicled how I nearly chickened out of launching this blog and was brought back from the Pit of Despair by my friend Mack Collier and his words of wisdom on the eve of my launch. (No, I never encountered any Rodents of Unusual Size while in the Pit, but I digress for fellow Princess Bride fans…) There was one other, […]
I’m a July baby, born in the sultry heat of a Boston summer. My parents were young and had just celebrated their one year anniversary when they had me…shortly after which my dad went off to service in the Army. We lived in an Italian section of Boston in a 3-flat. My grandpa lived alone […]
Have you ever watched a football game on TV? Of course you have. Ever seen a really bad play that clearly did not go the way the Head Coach or the team had planned? All the time. What happens next? In the span of, I don’t know, maybe 30 seconds the entire competitive landscape is re-assessed […]
It was June of 2006. I was on home-based dialysis because both of my kidneys had stopped working the previous summer. Every night at around 9:00 pm I would head to my bedroom for the night, hook myself up to a dialysis machine via a tube in my stomach, and stay there until 6:00 am. […]
Mack Collier wrote an exceptional post last week called, “The Introvert’s Guide to Speaking.” As both a speaker and an introvert myself, I found the post very relatable and was touched by Mack’s raw candor in regard to his speaking fears. There is another fear that most introverts (and many extroverts) have when attending a […]
I recently attended a conference at which a number of CEOs and marketing executives were present. One morning when at a breakfast table with seven others the discussion turned, as it often does, to how we could be of help to each other. One CEO in the group asked the marketers present for some creative […]