My wife and I trekked in Nepal recently. It changed the way I see things about myself, about others and about leadership. May I share 3...

The “chicken switch” is the ejection cord inside the cockpit of an F16 fighter jet. The F16 is a $50 million-dollar piece of machinery...

Victor Hugo produced many memorable works. He is thought to also coined the phrase, “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time...

Between 1984 and 1986, my brother and I (I was 13 and my brother 12) co-owned a massive piece of junk go-kart. We practically worshiped...

Question: Have you ever justified an unwise action at work or in your personal life based on credit from an earlier wise action? What if...

Liver and onions again! …. Ugh! In 1981, I lived in Gervais Oregon, nestled in the Willamette valley, the land of ‘milk and honey’ in...

“Until one is committed…. there is hesitancy,” written by, William Hutchison Murray, a prominent climber whose first book was scratched...

Had I been born earlier in world history, my time on earth would have abruptly ended at 18 …… and then again at 25 .....and yet again at...

The Dilemma: You’re not getting done what you committed to. The Fallacy: Choosing not to believe that follow through is strongly linked...

Reason One: You move closer to what it is you want. Reason Two: It builds mojo. Let me explain with a story. Victor Hugo was a French...

What are your Tacit Underlying Assumptions? What? The company I work for has engaged our 120-top leadership with an exercise that really...

I love a definition of leadership offered by one of my leadership thinker heroes: “There are 2 classic leadership mistakes: One: The...

Year 1997. I was a complete wet behind the ears sales person, trying to sell like my hero at the time, Zig Ziglar, told me to in his...

Have you ever committed to something you didn’t really want to do? Have you ever fallen victim to something that you needed to do, a...

Staying on track takes fortitude. It takes determination. It takes knowledge. It takes desire…and lots of it. It takes awareness. It...

Whether you are Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba fighting off competitors like Amazon; Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, looking for ways to...

February 4th, I experienced what I still consider the most difficult mental and physical, combined all into one day achievement. On this...

Arnold and The Chicken Switch Arnold Schwarzenegger plays big, always on the court, never sitting in the stands. He is a bodybuilder,...

In 1964, with a $500 loan from his dad and partnering with his former University of Oregon Track coach, 26-year old Phil Knight founded...

“You chickened out!” You have very likely heard this phrase before. Have you called another person a chicken or been the recipient of...