There was a lady in line at the coffee shop this morning that yelled at a kid working there. I didn’t hear exactly what was going on but she just yelled at him and stormed out. Two hours later…
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A hundred years ago the Dean of Oxford was told that the the oak beams in the dining hall were filled with beetles and they needed to be replaced. They didn’t know where they would get beams of that…
The cab driver tells me that he doesn’t know what he would do without a GPS anymore. Once you’ve used a GPS it’s hard to go back to using your internal compass – your intuition. It’s easier to follow…
Warren Buffet showed his calendar to a business man. To the mans surprise nothing was in it. Warren told him that he spends much of his day reading about all sorts of things. Reading is a form of rapid…
I don’t do any coaching but I think coaching is one of the most powerful things you can do for yourself. There’s a lot of great coaches out there that will pay for themselves. Here’s a video about what…
In the Golden Notebook Doris Lessing writes: “Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: ‘You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved…
Carol Dweck talks about the growth mindset vs. the fixed mindset. Someone with a growth mindset believes that being gifted is overrated. That anyone can be good at anything if they practice enough. They believe in improving their flaws as oppose to…
The angler fish lies in the sand at the bottom of the ocean. It camouflages itself to other fish while it dangles a bait to attract it’s prey. Then he kills them. The dangling isn’t the problem. It’s the killing part that doesn’t…
I recorded a series of short audio clips — here — where Erin Blaskie asks me questions about my early days of business. Enjoy.…
A sculpture titled “The Fearless Girl,” appeared in front of Wall street’s famous bull yesterday to symbolize the power of women in leadership. A refreshing message after my post a few days ago about how women don’t need answers,…
When Jia Jiang was 6 years old his teacher embarrassed him in front of the whole class. Unconsciously the incident changed him for a long time. One day when he was 14 years old Bill Gates came to his…
A queen with no children decided to hold a competition to determine who would take her place when she died. She summoned all the children in the city to her palace and gave each one a seed. “Plant this…
What if your team knew everything that you knew? How much stronger would it be? How much easier would it be to trust them? How much easier would it be to replace yourself when the time comes? A true…
I’ve done a lot of research since my last article about how school is broken. It’s now crystal clear to me that the school system doesn’t need a tweak or a shift – it needs a complete revamp. But…