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10 Things I’ve Learned about Growth after 60+ (Marathons)

By |2023-04-13T20:44:10+00:00December 8, 2020|Leadership, Marathons, Top 5|

  Many of us are at an interesting time of our business cycle; how to finish the year strong and above plan … and creating, defining and finalizing next year’s sales plan. By now, in December of a normal year, strategies and quotas would be all set.   This year-unlike-any-other-year strategy discussions [...]

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Learnings from a Personal Best

By |2023-01-12T23:35:46+00:00October 30, 2020|Inspiration, Leadership|

New PR at Kirkland Half-Marathon The day started out fairly warm and sunny and waking up to views of Lake Washington, downtown Seattle and the brilliant Olympic snow-capped mountains standing sentinal sharply over the lake.  Awake at 5:15 AM, I [...]

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Beautiful Girl Clara and the Napa Valley Marathon

By |2023-01-12T23:35:55+00:00October 30, 2020|Inspiration, Leadership|

Napa Valley Marathon 2016 This marathon was a very special one.  I love the course and got to run with my friend Kim and it came on the weekend of getting to hold my granddaughter for the first time, and [...]

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What 9-11 Taught us about Marketing

By |2023-01-12T23:36:12+00:00September 30, 2020|Inspiration, Leadership|

On 9/11 Next year will be the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the US, including the World Trade Center towers.  Like everyone else, I can remember exactly where I was at the time – such a pivotal moment [...]

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Personal Transformation in Uncertain Times

By |2023-04-13T20:44:10+00:00September 27, 2017|Inspiration, Leadership, Top 5|

Anybody can do (most) anything they want to in this life. I believe this with all my heart. The art of the possible. The human potential. The nineteenth century novelist George Eliot wrote, “It’s never too late to be what [...]

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Ten Leadership Lessons from Everest

By |2023-04-14T19:29:57+00:00August 12, 2017|Everest, Leadership, Reader Faves|

Between 22,000′ and 26,000′ on Everest, I spent time thinking about the similarities of the mountain and leadership. When your own life and goal are in danger and success is not guaranteed, you have to both lead, manage yourself and [...]

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Invictus – Why you too should love Rugby

By |2023-01-12T23:36:55+00:00July 21, 2017|Inspiration, Leadership|

I am a self-confessed rugby fan and an adopted New Zealand All Blacks fanatic. I’ve seen them play a number of times including at their home ground of Eden Park which is the most electric place you could ever watch [...]

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Five Lessons on Leadership from Lee Kuan Yew

By |2024-04-02T17:19:03+00:00April 4, 2017|Inspiration, Leadership|

When Lee Kuan Yew died a couple of years ago, it was very sad here in Singapore. You could see it on the faces of colleagues, friends and people we encounter every day like taxi or bus drivers. You could [...]

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Leadership Lessons from Shackleton

By |2023-01-12T23:37:26+00:00February 8, 2017|Antarctica, Leadership|

Long ago, I read a fantastic book called “South”, which is the verbatim account by Sir Ernest Shackleton on his hard-to-believe Endurance expedition of 1914-1916 where he got every one of his men safely home after their ship was crushed [...]

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