Archive for the ‘Workplace Culture Change’ Category

Many, many years ago I sat around with an old grad-school buddy as we shared a dream sequence about our careers. Both of us had significant achievements and accomplishments within our respective careers and had a vision of one day working together as consultants. Our relationship started on the day of my first graduate school […]

“No seriously!” That was a tag-line I used back in my stand-up days.  I would make an outlandish statement and then, as if to make it funnier, I would say, “No, Seriously!”  Pause, delay, “you’re right, I’m just kidding.   That’s my job!” Back in the 1980’s I cut my teeth as a stand-up comic at […]

In the immortal words of LL Cool J, “Mama said Knock you out!” The lyrics of this rap make LL Cool J sound like a tough guy!   But one of the lines tells the truth; “Old English filled my mind and I came up with a funky rhyme.”   The Old English is reference to a […]

What a week to be the King of your Sport! How the mighty have fallen?  And that’s the point; how the mighty fell! We all watched it (or at least 8.6 Million of us according to AP ratings) on live TV.  In stunned silence we saw the NBA’s reigning MVP LeBron James refuse to shake […]