When our six-year-old’s temper tantrums spiraled out of control, a child psychiatrist gave us an approach to try. It turned out to be the best leadership advice I ever received. A funny, true story about parenting, system design, and what happens when you build the right container for a problem-solver.
A stranger knocked on the front door of my Bucks County farmhouse. What followed was one of the most unexpected afternoons of my life — a story about houses, memory, and the lives that get passed forward through the walls we live in.
A nine-year-old city kid discovers the Maine woods in 1969. Fifty years later, his father’s fading memory holds onto “Gus’s cabin” while everything else dissolves. A story about what stays, what goes, and finding one’s way.
A cross-country Vespa registration crisis turns into an unexpected lesson in leadership, persistence, and the power of asking the right questions at 8 AM.
Discover why 100% utilization guarantees failure and how slack time creates improves throughput and predictability. Learn the mathematics behind strategic “no” decisions and practical experiments to build sustainable team effectiveness through Kingman’s Law, context-switching research, and flow metrics.
