Yesterday I talked about offering to help the students in my speech classes. I was being fairly generous, I thought. And there were several students across the years who took me up on my offer. They stopped me after class, they came to my office, they called me. (If there had been email back then, […]

I used to teach college students how to speak. I would tell them at the beginning of the class, “When you give your speech, I will assign you a grade. In that moment, when you are completing the assignment, I will use the standards that I have established. And you will be on your own […]

There are three tabs open in my browser at the moment. One is a list called “catching up.” One is my gmail inbox. One is this conversation with you. “Catching up” is a to-do list of sorts. At the moment it has a long list of potential post titles and a list of the writing, […]

We’ve found in all our research studies that the signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change, the signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency. Jim Collins was talking about successful companies in Great by Choice, but on this Monday morning I’m guessing that he could be talking about a lot of us. We had great conversations […]