Go ahead, make my day

I don’t get mail like this every day. Thank you, kind reader in West Virginia, for responding to my column Shedding Ego in a Shooting’s Aftermath: I just finished reading your thoughts on the Arizona shooting on your website. It is obvious to me that you...

Never Get a ‘Real’ Job

So enjoyed Scott Gerber’s book Never Get a “Real” Job (subtitled How to Dump Your Boss, Build a Business, and Not Go Broke) even though it’s geared to the Gen Y set. Happy to share my thoughts in today’s Game Plan: The Not-So-Conventional...

Shedding ego in a shooting’s aftermath

Sometimes when you write two columns a week, you try to will the creative process to your timetable or spark it with a dose of culture. Other times it all just comes rushing in. I cannot explain why or how, but when Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and others at a...

Quotable

Being grateful improves overall health, helps you sleep better, lowers the level of stress hormones in your blood, reverses stress damage in your heart, and much more. — Love for No Reason by Marci Shimoff

Lessons in leadership

Sometimes it’s the simplest things that speak volumes. For instance, some recent messages from leaders in the news — take vacation, get some sleep and don’t be a hypocrite a la Chris Christie, Arianna Huffington and Cory Booker, respectively....