Windows of Opportunity: Lessons Learned

Old Lessons - New Challenges For most of my working life, I lived in the rhythm of management ... people management and change management. One was about building relationships, the other about guiding transformation. Both demanded patience, awareness, and the ability to read between the lines of what people said and what they felt. As …

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Having the ‘craic’ 

Like most people I enjoy the company & loving embrace of my family and the times spent with my closest and dearest friends. The Irish have a specific word for what I'm talking about here and that word is ‘craic’, pronounced simply as ‘crack’.  It means simply having fun enjoying each others company. The pronunciation and the …

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Becoming Le Bon Vivant

Le Bon Vivant I had an interesting phone call yesterday with a very close friend who is about to retire. Talking through the logistics of his transition into retirement such as health insurance, social security financials, etc.. we got down to discussing what most impending retirees want to know which is, "what the hell am …

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