When You Step Back to Grow, Are You Jumping into Your Time Off With Both Feet – or Just Straddling The Line?
Over the July 4th holiday, Disruption Advisors decided to disrupt ourselves with an experiment in resetting. Instead of settling on a long weekend, we put the entire company on pause […]
380 ENCORE General Stanley McChrystal: How to Strengthen Your Risk Immune System and Stop Imagining the Worst
Click HERE to receive SHRM number. Risk is all around us. It’s baked into everything we do, into every day of our lives, a feeling that danger – and loss – lurks […]
Even When We Know What We Want To Say, Why Is It Hard To Put Those Words To Paper?
It’s time to write the next book. Like with any launch point on a new S Curve, it’s exhilarating, ruthlessly terrifying, and… vaguely apprehensive. I have an outline, of course, […]
Putting The S Curve Into Practice By Throwing It Off A Cliff (With A Harness)
Last week, I had the pleasure to meet fifty interesting, delightful human beings – not a joy you experience every day – and everyone was part of the Executive MBA […]
Don’t Miss Out: Say Yes To The S
A few weeks ago, I was in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, for work. But, because I am not all work and no play (though my family might want to debate that […]
Every Time You Disrupt Yourself, There’s A Potential Ripple Effect
Not long ago, I was talking to an individual about a major opportunity that one of the partners in their marriage had received. It was precisely the sort of disruptive […]
Three Ways To Improve Your Personal Growth
When I deplaned in Delhi, a man approached me and offered to pick up my suitcase and ferry it to the cab. I told him no, thank you. I had […]
This Life-Experience Is One I Will Not Soon Forget
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” Maya Angelou I wrote about my trip to India when I […]
Three Ways to Help Empower and Energize, Rather Than Stall Your S Curve
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.” Benjamin Franklin Late last week, I spent two days with one of my childhood friends and a few of her friends (now my friends) at […]
Do you have the people (and process) you need to move off the launch point?
“The biggest mistake people make is not realizing that success is a slow build.” Tim Ferris I’m getting ready to travel this week. I’ll be on the road for nearly […]