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Watching the Fire
Sheila invited me to a date night down at the Touchstone Center for Crafts in the Laurel Highlands. Touchstone

Organizations Have a What’s Next Problem Too
Their Leadership Plans In my Substack posts, I mostly write about what it means for individuals to navigate What’s

Something Unexpected Is Still Growing
Hair Today, More Tomorrow The summer I interned at the National Institutes of Health, I got a perm. The

How I Spent My Birthday Awake Wondering Who Is Right
It is 1:54 on Tuesday morning as I am writing this. I know the exact time because I just

I Asked AI to Roast Me.
It Got Personal. Editor’s Note: A number of folks have reached out to me asking why I haven’t written

The Day I Became My Own Client
One ending, one beginning Sixteen years ago, I walked into my boss’s office for our regular Monday morning meeting
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No One Gets Out of Here Alive
We spent the week just south of Taos, New Mexico, near the Rio Grande Gorge, accompanying my brother-in-law, Miles,

Time for your Annual Review, Nellie
(In keeping with my exploration of how Artificial Intelligence is changing the workplace and our world, I thought I

Why Do We Hate Each Other… Even on July 4th?
In the movie The American President, Annette Bening plays a lobbyist who falls for Michael Douglas, the President. During

The Future of Work
When AI Clocks In and We Clock Out One of my nonprofit clients, who runs adolescent treatment centers, recently

Everybody’s a Coach These Days
And that’s not always a good thing. My clients often tell me that working together feels like therapy. I

Can I Get Some…Satisfaction?
One of my father’s best qualities was his ability to be satisfied with what he had. He didn’t just