I’m sure you’ve all heard the concept of the alpha male or the alpha female. The alpha male is the male in any given tribe who is primarily responsible for the tribe and who is the key breadwinner for the tribe. The alpha female is the lead female who the other, subservient females look to [...]

The business process is really not all that complex. Brought down to its bare essentials it looks like this. A product or a service is going to be offered (whether manufactured or simply procured). You are going to communicate as to why it becomes beneficial for a targeted buyer to purchase that particular product or [...]

Each and every person’s life has got to have some type of point of view. Some people are committed to building a company. Others are committed to building a family. Others are committed to public service. And yet others are committed to a solid marriage or relationship. If we think about pure marketing propositions, it [...]

Jordan suffers from LEGO withdrawal. It’s not exactly LEGO withdrawal because he spends a great deal of quality time with his LEGOs. It’s more that he doesn’t quite understand I enjoy spending time with him, no matter what he’s doing, including dealing with his LEGOs. The basic problem is that Jordan loves to spend time [...]

Give me individuals and associates who are prepared to passionately argue for a particular position. I love the passion. I love the commitment. A Manager’s job is not necessarily to come up with the ideas. If a Manager happens to come up with some ideas, great. But there is almost a problem with that. It’s [...]

When I was listening to Father Dave discussing the machinations of prayer as well as the vestry of the Episcopalian Church, I was mindful of the distinction between the underlying infrastructure of truth and those things which human beings build on top of it. It appears to me that if we were to build a [...]

I always wondered why people compromise functionality for design. Janet is a design kind of person. And she is definitely not a curtain kind of person. Therefore, we have yet to ever agree on a curtain design which makes sense. My personal view, from the time that I was 11 years old and experienced the [...]

Storytelling is all about the three Ps: A premise A problem A payoff

I want to be successful. But what I don’t want to do is sacrifice myself, my wife, or my family, for success. Can I have it all? In truth, when I used to think about these things at a relatively low level, they weren’t really thoughts at all, they were simply intellectual conversations. But they [...]

The history of generations reflects the generation of history. We face the same catharsis, regardless of what century or millennium in which we live: An avalanche of emotion. Built on survival, we search for traveling companions and the satisfaction of life. It’s all about who we are and our aspirations for who we want to [...]