Originally published on the Involution Studios blog. Each day, more and more people go thru their lives with their head tilted downward and their thumb manipulating a handheld computer. This is not class-based behaviour: these expensive machines and/or the data
Leadership and context
Originally published on the Facio blog I vividly remember a happy meeting with a departing intern. I authentically celebrated her good contributions, she earnestly complimented me in ways I would not have imagined, and it was the very best of
The jewels of personality
Originally published on the Facio blog I’ve now been certified in four of the leading personality methodologies and have studied dozens more. One of the best are the Hogan Assessments, which use three different reports to cover your strengths, “derailers,”
As our children grow, so do we
We’re taught that parenting is a relatively one way shaping process. We guide our children and help them develop into adults. While we can expect to get a different perspective on the world from the process, the general notion is
Handle with care
Originally published on the Facio blog Your best and most valuable employees are also the hardest to ultimately keep. That’s because the same things that make them so effective for you make them most desirable to the market and less
Re-thinking rejection
Originally posted on the Facio blog We’ve been taught that rejection is among the most painful things we will feel in our lives. Rejection sucks. Rejection hurts. It represents failure, lack, falling short, something being wrong with you. On a
Dying and Byzantium
William Butler Yeats is one of the more important poets in Western literature. Later in his life he wrote two poems about dying, and framed both in the context of Byzantium. The first, written in 1927 when he was 61/62;
The decay of good products
Originally published on the Involution Studios blog. Remember when Spam was just meat in a can? I’m not quite sure when “spam” became a daily and often painful reality of my life – sometime after 1994 but before 2000 –