Year: 2025

Do you have a “safe zone”? Last week we talked about how your safe zone sits right outside of your comfort zone. When you willing… brave enough… to step outside of your comfort zone, you…

Do you appreciate your team taking risks? Let’s celebrate the birth of a genius this week. I’m talking about Miles Davis, legendary trumpeter, composer, and band leader, born on May 26, 1926. Let me tell…

Post an image (you or a passable proxy) that shows how you’re feeling on this fine Friday. Me? In these crazy times, all I can hope for, for myself and for you: Be brave. As…

What’s the real measure of effective communication? After nearly 20 years at Dominican University and over 30 years of teaching marketing, I still read every single course evaluation. This past semester, one comment caught my…

Are you trapped by the illusion of progress? Your comfort zone covers what you do every day. What you’re good at. What makes you comfortable. Like a merry-go-round, you’re moving around but not necessarily moving…

How do you make your comfort zone bigger? Yesterday, I wrote about your comfort zone and teased the idea of the two crescents. As I hope you’ve realized by now, you can still be safe…

How do you define your comfort zone? Your comfort zone: You know that phrase, we hear it all the time, usually preceded by “you’ve got to step out of…”. And what does that mean? I’d…

Let’s show everyone how we’re celebrating the end of the week! My family got a tiny bit bigger. Welcome Samuel, from Grandpa Dave. It was a great week. I hope yours was, too. Make it…

Are you a boss or a leader? Do you inspire action or only generate compliance? I experienced a revealing moment recently that captures the difference between being a boss and being a leader. During a…

Do you like the phrase “underpromise and overdeliver”? That’s a pretty well-known saying. I’m not a fan. If you underpromise too much, you won’t even get the job or coveted project. Rather than build low…