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Modulate your Voice: Lessons for Leaders (from Watering a Garden)
I work with high powered people who express themselves with a force, an intensity, a volume, and a speed that often doesn’t take the readiness or the receptivity of their listeners into account. Being able to tend a garden in Hell’s Kitchen, a neighborhood in...
Everything I Ever Needed to Learn, I Learned Playing in the Streets of My Neighborhood
Growing up in NJ in the NYC suburbs, my friends and I, we had two educations. We had school and we had our hunter-gatherer education. We played in mixed-age neighborhood groups every day after school, often until way after dark. We played all weekend and all summer...
“It gave us a place to fail.”
"First and most important, Second City gave me a place to go; it gave me a place to function. That was the main thing. And the second most important thing, which was very, very close to the first, was that it gave us a place to fail. Which doesn’t exist in this...
Great Leaders, Make Your People Feel Seen
Great Leaders get their teams aligned with action, moving in the same direction and doing their best work. People who feel seen and feel safe are more loyal, productive and innovative. When Amy Poehler gave her commencement speech to Harvard graduates, she spoke about...
Leaders, Present thoughts and ideas with utmost clarity
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information - 7 +/- 2 bits of information Based on cognitive psychologist, George Miller’s research at Harvard If you were given a series of letters to remember (e.g., twpbdrt),...
Client Stories
I My client, when he rose to become the head of a practice at a Big Four Professional Services firm, he needed to feel more comfortable in his role leading hundreds of Partners. Self-professed, he was at his absolute best when he was working with clients to solve...
