“I would regard it as a sentence to hell if they gave me some company with a million employees to change the culture.”

That’s what the late Charlie M...

In a seventeenth-century building in the town of Sèvres, just west of Paris, there sits a 1.5 inch diameter, 1.5 inch tall cylinder made from an alloy...

You’ve probably had this experience: stopped in multiple lanes of traffic, you sense your car unexpectedly rolling backward. A sudden wave of adrenali...

Victory came at 6:12 p.m. on Day Two of the battle.

Instead of a white flag, my adversary signaled their surrender by displaying an administrator log...

In my mind, I can encapsulate the last year or two and the people I know—friends, family, and acquaintances—in an imaginary sphere, personally signifi...

A text message buzzed my phone one spring day a couple years ago. It was a concerned neighbor unsure what to do about two fledgling hawks on the groun...

Naming companies is hard.

When Martha and I set out to name our business, we wanted something that conveyed our desire to help people sort through th...

The odds are good that you are reading these words on a mobile device made by Apple, Google, or Samsung. The odds are even better that your device con...

Before we signed our daughter up for her first riding lesson, Martha and I had no experience with horses beyond an occasional trail ride at a state pa...

The year is now 2025! By the time we reach its end twelve months hence, fully one-fourth of the twenty-first century will be behind us.

Between now a...

The holiday season is upon us, and, ready or not, your emotional intelligence skills are about to be tested!

Last week we shared the first two compos...

It is rarely a lack of cognitive horsepower that derails careers, loses sales, damages relationships, or results in failed leadership initiatives.

In...

I have been called “stoic” on more than one occasion. I suppose that’s understandable, though my outwardly subdued demeanor belies the relatively high...

I grew up with a wood-burning stove in the living room. It did a fantastic job of generating heat in the winter, though it was less fantastic at distr...

Learning involves far more than just memorizing information. 

Learning is a process of change and adaptation that involves integrating new informatio...

Pat Murray, a legendary executive coach and CEO group chair, defined a “real issue” as...

“any issue that causes everyone in the group to experience ...

At your next all-hands meeting, look to your left, then look to your right. Odds are one of those people is either actively looking for a new job, or ...

The very peaceful-looking creature in the photo above is an agouti. About the size of a cat, an agouti looks kind of like a mini-capybara, to which th...

Engineering school, plus a few decades in the medical device industry, has given me ample reason to spend lots of time thinking about accuracy and pre...

Successful photography demands constant attention to tradeoffs and compromises. My preferred subjects are birds, and they rarely agree to pose patient...

Did you know that every September, many birds transform themselves into completely different species?

Redstarts metamorphose into robins, summer tana...

In Part One of this series on conflict, we looked at what we do that turns a difference of opinion into the sort of toxic confrontations we all dread,...

We’re talking about conflict.

Last time we looked at the origin of the word itself. Conflict is literally about bashing things together.

The word ca...

To bash together.

That is the literal meaning of the word “conflict,” from the Latin com- or con-, for “with or together” and fligere, meaning “to st...