“Tunes Day”

I feel there is a strong link between music and leadership. Every “Tunes Day” (Tuesday), I will examine a song and find leadership lessons in its lyrics. From Steven Pressfield – The Daily Pressfield: In the early days of The Rolling Stones, the boys would send Keith down to the basement with his guitar while

Do the little things

Last night NY Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau was interviewed after a win. One of the things he said, we do the little things to improve ourselves. If you keep doing the little things, you may be surprised with the results. You may also exceed expectations, since the other team may be relying on pure talent

The Value of Transcendental Meditation (TM)

In December I will have been meditating for ten years. Thanks to my wife, we started during a particularly stressful time in our lives. It immediately changed me. I had more energy and my creativity and innovation increased dramatically. Howard Stern and Jerry Seinfeld talk about it in this clip below: We live in a

Moving into the Unknown

From Phil Jackson’s book Eleven Rings: The key to sustained success is to keep growing as a team. Winning is about moving into the unknown and creating something new. Remember that scene in the first Indian Jones movie when someone asks Indy what he’s going to do next, and he replies, “I don’t know, I’m

The Zen Leader

In her book The Zen Leader, Ginny Whitelaw describes how joy arises when people are bound together by a strong sense of connectedness. “This joy may be more subtle than the jump-for-joy variety,” she writes. “It may feel like full engagement in what we do and a quiet satisfaction arising. It may feel like energy