Building a Resilient Workforce

Every business has ups and downs, and the only way to take advantage of the “ups” is to be able to bounce back from the “downs.” Corporate wellness programs go a long way to building resiliency in your workforce. The easy piece of that is that healthy employees come to work with more energy to […]

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Where Are the Younger Super-Creatives?

So, what are all the young geniuses up to these days? Scientific American noted a few years ago that a study of Nobel laureates revealed that scientists are doing their most important breakthrough work later in life. It’s not just that they are receiving the Nobel Prize when they are older, because that has typically […]

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From Running Marathons to Running a Business

A year ago, right about now, I was on top of the world. Literally. Finishing the 2016 North Pole Marathon was a dream come true, but it also represented the end of my journey to complete The Marathon Grand Slam (a marathon on all 7 continents and at the North Pole). From the time I […]

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Big Things Come in Small Packages

Do you like cooking shows? Of course you do. Do you like competition cooking shows, where the various chefs rip each other apart like they are ripping apart a head of lettuce? Admit it, you do. So do you like seeing competition cooking shows with kids? Probably. But hopefully not to see them rip each […]

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Writing is the Right Thing to Do

Retaining employees

Back at the end of 2008 I was asked to give a talk at a Singaporean university about the likely impact of President Obama’s election on international relations. A couple days before, one of the organizer’s assistants wrote and asked me for a bio. She wrote, “I was going to pull something from online, but […]

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