On November 22nd 60 years ago, everything changed.It was the day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated…and it rocked the world.While I was alive at the time (I was 5 years old) I didn’t really comprehend it…all I knew was that every adult was glued to the TV for days…and a lot of people were ...

I attended a football game 20 years ago where I ended up in the middle of a fight in the stands.I didn’t start it…read on so you’ll learn why I couldn’t have started it in this lifetime (or multiple lifetimes) …but it illustrates the ultimate lesson about why misplaced hero worship rarely (if ever) pays out.Not ...

If you can make one heap of all your winningsAnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginningsAnd never breathe a word about your loss……Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it. This is from a poem called If— by Rudyard Kipling…but it might as well have been titled ...

In 2016 I wrote a post titled, “Masterminding at the Pentagon…or anywhere” …and in it, I included an article I was interviewed for from Forbes.com, titled, “Here’s The Most Valuable Business Lesson This Marketing Legend Shared With Troops At The Pentagon.” Outside of the lesson coming from a “marketing legend in his own mind” (I am far from a ...