Gunners
Gunners: the hyper-aggressive leaders who make things happen. I am a gunner. I didn’t realize it until I heard my son describe one of the gunners in his class in medical school. “She is on…
Surprise! Surprise!
Have you ever been completely surprised by the abrupt resignation of someone on your team? Have you ever gotten the call from your wife telling how your teenage son or daughter has done something totally…
Who Makes The Rules?
Suppose there was a king….a good king…who ruled over his land with both justice and mercy. Everyone knew him to be a good-hearted king, but he was strong on people who didn’t respect each other….
Perception Is NOT Reality – Part II
O.K., this is going to be frustrating. But it is true. We can’t know, like completely and totally know what’s real, until we die. That’s why it’s called faith. We have to “park” what we…
Perception Is NOT Reality – Part I
“Hey man, my wife is driving me crazy. She doesn’t do anything to show me that she loves me.” “Really? You honestly believe what you’re saying?” “Perception is reality, man. That’s the way it looks…
The “Heavy Water” of Trust
In a nuclear power plant, “heavy water” keeps the reactor cool as it burns the fuel, which creates the steam that turns the turbines that generate electricity. “Heavy water” is actually deuterium oxide, which is…
Driven or Called?
Almost all of us guys get up every day and go to work. Work involves people, and we deal with all kinds of attitudes. Some, we’d just rather not have to deal with at all…
When I (finally) Dropped To My Knees…
It was early in my business career. Our start up venture was a little over two years old. We had opened our first expansion city office, and it was awful. Wrong market, wrong people, wrong…
“Denial” is not a river in Egypt
Okay, most people don’t really want to talk about death. We avoid deathly-ill people. None of us feel competent in being around the surviving family when death has struck; we don’t know what to say……
Where’s Her Heart?
I had lunch with one of “my guys” the other day. It was our “one on one” to get to know each other. He toured me around his office, introduced me to his partners, and…
