It’s True. The iPhone just had its 15th birthday. On July 9, 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to the world at Macworld in San Francisco. It's worth the 10 minutes it will take you to watch Steve Jobs at his finest in this keynote speech. https://youtu.be/MnrJzXM7a6o A Revolution that Changed…
I heard from a CEO recently, with whom I’ve met and had dinner, but have not worked. He included this sentence in an email after a brief introduction: “So much is up in the air at the moment. Ugh. Whoever thought being in leadership was something to aspire to?” I…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” ~ Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens’ famous opening sentence continues “It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity.”…
There's no doubt that the lack of Accountability is the issue that rises to the top of the list in every conversation I've had with CEOs. "TWENTY TIRED EXCUSES" One of the first clues that your team or organization is struggling with Accountability is how many of the "TWENTY TIRED EXCUSES"…
The Smell Identification Test is a comprehensive test that includes 40 different aromas. It is reportedly the most reliable with the correlation between the test and retest = .94. Many folks have made it fun by trying it in a family round-robin to see whose smeller is working best. I…
Photo: carballo (Shutterstock) I don't know about you, but this never crossed my mind. How else should we hold our phone?Apparently, there's an issue called "smartphone pinkie", because the smaller size of the pinkie won't "tolerate the pressure and the positioning as well as a larger digit". Who knew? Scheduling…
Remote Work is the Order of the Day "The old model of work wasted people's time." Matt Mullenweg Tweet He's the CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. They have 1,876 employees in 97 countries that work on an "asynchronous" basis, setting their own schedules. See how it all works and…
If you're watching the Beijing Winter Olympics, you've seen that this theme is NOT the attitude of an Olympic Athlete. They are not quitters. Yes, they fall or make a slight error that costs them a spot on the podium, but they DO NOT QUIT! How about you? Are you…
Not good. Teachers are leaving and few others are entering the field. Schools have been banning books for more than a century. Recently, Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, a Pulitzer Prize winner, was banned from a Washington State school district ... and there are many others, some of…