I spend a good chunk of my free time reading business books. Whether it’s the classics like Christensen, MgGrath or Moore, or newer business books by the likes of Youngme Moon or Cal Newport – I love learning about different
The Allure of Next Time
I can barely count the number of times it has happened. I learn something new and revolutionary at work – a new team management insight, a new prioritization method, a new leadership strategy, or even just a new way to
Windsurfing
In honor of summer and the long 4th of July holiday weekend, I figured I would reflect a little bit on one of my favorite summer activities: windsurfing. I learned to windsurf from my father during our annual family trips
Cross Training
I still remember how it felt during my first week of work in the ad agency world: walking down the halls past unshaven creatives, weaving through cubicles of media planners, and schmoosing with account executives. I had finally made it
Lifelong Learning
Just a short thought for today. Over the course of my career I’ve had a lot of successes and a lot of challenges. There have been reasons for celebration and reasons for reflection. In both states, learning has always been
Baking Bread and Achieving Objective Distance From Your Work
Let me start by saying that I am a lousy baker. Well, I suppose it goes broader than that – I’m really a lousy cook in general. I have no intuition for food preparation at all and the only way
The Key to Smart Failure: Believing You’re In Control
Last week I wrote about three seemingly unrelated experiences that coalesced to teach a common lesson. This week, I’d like to take the same approach on the topic of smart failure. 1) Seth Godin Recently at AppNexus’ New York office,
Learning a New Skill
Most of the students in my seventh grade math class studied trigonometry. I, on the other hand, studied something far more valuable to my long-term education: pen tricks. Throughout my childhood I always noticed that all of the smartest people