Advocating for Imperfection

If your educational and career paths are anything like mine, somewhere along the way you were told that soup-to-nuts perfection in your professional endeavors was the goal.  You were lead to believe that documents couldn’t have typos, suggestions had to be thoroughly...

Play the Game or Change the Game

We all have a choice.  We can choose to play the game or we can choose to change the game.  Ostensibly, each has a fifty percent chance of being selected.  In a room with one hundred people, half could choose to pursue success by following the rules, doing the right...

“Study Shows Why Lawyers Are So Smart,” Or Does It?

The article, “Study Shows Why Lawyers Are So Smart” published in last week’s Wall Street Journal supports something my father, a lawyer, has been telling me for years, “Law school teaches you how to think.” Apparently, neuroscientists at the UC Berkeley conducted a...

Get More Optimistic – I Double Dog Dare Ya

Remember those competencies (if you don’t like the word competency sub in skill or behavior here instead) that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago?  You know the ones.  Those that distinguish high achievers, people in leadership positions, and highly-successful people...