Putting the Puzzle Pieces in Place
Volume XXIII, Number 9Issue 1118 | March 3, 2025 Putting the Puzzle Pieces in Place Most people, it seems, enjoy solving puzzles. One need look no further than the response to the riddles that appear as part of each week’s MMM for evidence of that. Having offered those weekly quizzes for thirteen years, I have noticed a […]
Is It Possible to Prosper with a Foot in Each Realm?
Volume XXIII, Number 8 Issue 1117 | February 24, 2025 Is It Possible to Prosper with a Foot in Each Realm? Last week’s theme – namely, humankind’s interdependent nature contrasted with the growing likelihood machines will soon pass from tool to partner to unfettered boss – requires some follow up. Specifically, I want us to explore the tension […]
Something to Ponder
Volume XXIII, Number 7 (Issue 1116) | February 17, 2025 Something to Ponder Even introverts are social creatures, their protests notwithstanding. As such they/we require relationships if we are to get things done, feel complete, etc. Poet John Donne reminded us of that when he penned, “No Man Is an Island.” Experience tells us relationships […]
Waiting May Be Overrated
Volume XXIII, Number 6 (Issue 1115) | February 10, 2025 Waiting May Be Overrated It is said good things come to those who wait. Patience, therefore, is a virtue, and as such it will be rewarded. We need look no further than the Bible as an authority on the subject. Yet how many times in your […]
Taking the First Step
Volume XXIII, Number 5 (Issue 1114) | February 3, 2025 Taking the First Step If you have been in the room when a toddler took those first wobbly, uncertain steps – particularly after numerous failed attempts – you know how exciting, not to mention terrifying, it can be. And, if that is what you felt as the […]
A Different Take on DEI
Volume XXIII, Number 4 (Issue 1113) | January 27, 2025 A Different Take on DEI I grew up in an era that saw many of the seminal moments of the Civil Rights Movement. It was the time of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., The Freedom Riders, the assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and similar civil […]
Career Origins
Volume XXIII, Number 3 (Issue 1112) | January 20, 2025 Career Origins Are you able to trace your career to something in your origin story? Perhaps you followed a family member into the family business. Maybe a childhood mentor or teacher opened your mind to a career path based upon an aptitude you demonstrated. In some cases, […]
The Toll of the Accidental Leader
Volume XXIII, Number 2 (Issue 1111) | January 13, 2025 The Toll of the Accidental Leader Does your organization have any accidental leaders? For clarification, an “accidental” leader is someone who is not remotely prepared for the role and opportunity they are given. Sometimes that happens when a hiring mistake is made filling a mid or […]
Resiliency
Volume XXIII, Number 1 (Issue 1110) | January 6, 2025 Resiliency Another year is underway. Though 2025 did not start on the best foot given the terrorist attack that took place in New Orleans in the early hours of January 1, we will nevertheless manage to put that horrific event behind us the same way we […]
Failure Is Always a Possibility
Volume XXII, Number 53 (Issue 1109) | December 30, 2024 Failure Is Always a Possibility It is all but guaranteed if one never tries. I first went into business for myself in 1980. At the time I had three years as a financial analyst and manager of a team plus three years as a consultant under […]