People who: get jokes: can usually connect the dots and solve intellectual challenges make jokes: are articulate, have comedic timing, and know how to use words for impact take jokes: don’t take themselves too seriously, and are more open to differences The first, i.e. people...

Organizations pay headhunters more money to place one senior executive than they would pay all the coaches, trainers and people managers, combined, to develop that executive over their entire lifetime.  This is the Architect vs. Agent dilemma: of a 100 buildings in a colony...

The nails of a dog which hasn’t played on the road for a couple of weeks become overly sharp. They aren’t alone – we all develop rough edges when we disengage with a harsh source of reality. That reality check comes to us in the form of feedback.  One may assume that we...

You can’t run a medical school without having an adjoining hospital. Students learn by working along side the best doctors, who, only after years and years of practice, become professors.  After learning the basics, these doctors hypothesize, experiment, study and codify their new...