The Future of Everything Twelve years ago my supervisor at Raytheon called me into her office to share something important. With excitement, she told me that I was being considered for a promotion to be Chief of Staff to the then CEO. Needless to say, this played a...
I love to argue…with the right people and the right conditions, it can be a lot of fun. Remember the TV show Moonlighting back in the 80’s? Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd argued over each other constantly, like there were two dialogs going on at once. I’m sure many...
After a decade of sacrifice, our military caught the guy (I don't even want to use his name). Young people dance in the street, after all, this is the reality they have know since 911. Our world is safer (hopefully). Perhaps it will have a healing effect. However, our...
The Future Of Everything I look around my world and see a lot of courage. I see it on the news, I see it in the many people still out of work, and I see it when my daughter tries out for a sports team. It’s all around us, and it fuels where we are going. Courage is...
The Future of Everything Albert Einstein once said, “I never think about the future. It comes soon enough.” Not to disagree with one of the world’s best minds, but I think we need to think about our future or we will be victims of it. The genie is out of the bottle,...
Do you have tenacity? I’m an advocate for maneuvering, being flexible and changing directions when seeking a career path or job, but are we often too quick to change our strategy when we should be focused on the prize? This March I will be presenting at the Begin with...
In a meeting with a group of PhD’s, working on some good stuff, and a staffer asked a straight forward question. The response, after a pregnant pause, is a bit condescending. We have all been there, on both ends of that exchange, and it serves nobody. Or the time...
The Future is Everything You can call it the “perfect recipe.” Last month, graduate student Derek Billings told me a story about how his grandfather explained success to him. His grandfather told him that if he just shows up for things, he will be better than 50% of...
The Future is Everything Statistician W. Edwards Deming once said, “It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” I think the question of change is as fundamental as survival, and only requires an acceptance that change will definitely happen. Therefore,...
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