I’ve had a very busy year. As we all know, 2020 has been a very challenging year. I need a break. More than a long weekend or a week or 2. I’m taking a sabbatical until mid-January 2021.
Perhaps you need a break! Perhaps someone you know or love needs a break and you could lend your support.
I hope you have a wonderful holiday season. Peace, peace, peace.
Thank God It’s Monday will be back before you know it!
Who would have thought, getting new eyeglasses would bring a new perspective? It was Friday, October 30th, when I got new lenses installed in my glasses. For an hour, I could not read anything: my phone, the menu at the restaurant, the bill, etc. Weird. I needed to kill time Read more…
An eye-opening observation about COVID, the economy and business. Like the rest of us who’ve been taking “stay home and stay safe” seriously, I had only minimally experienced, first hand, how the shutdown has impacted so many industries.
As a business leader, one of our top skills to master is to disagree without being disagreeable.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, who died this past Friday, the 18th of September, 2020 was a shining example of that skill.
This week, I’m thinking about entitlement: the belief that one is inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment. I’ve seen horrible examples of entitlement by the police. Peaceful protestors have been attacked, members of the press have been attacked and arrested, even credentialed members of foreign press have been attacked. Read more…
I feel like I’ve just awakened from a coma. It must be 1968. We’ve got a vibrant manned space program underway (congratulations NASA and SpaceX!) and civil unrest spreading like wildfire across the U.S. I see a vacuum of leadership in the White House and an agitator using Twitter to Read more…
How do we pay homage to our U.S. veterans who gave their lives in service to our country? How do we express our gratitude? When I see a war movie and see the toll our fighting men and women suffered, it is truly humbling. During a trip to Belgium, I Read more…
“We’re standing at a portal to the future; we’re not going back to how it used to be.” What can you do to make this so? Perhaps that’s the bigger point of the pandemic. Perhaps it is giving us the opportunity to reflect on where we’ve been and where we are going.
Just as I was sitting down to post Thank God It’s Monday this past Sunday night, the “breaking news” of the mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival flashed across my TV screen. Damn. I don’t believe in “business as usual” when news such as this hits, particularly so close Read more…
I’ve always been amazed that the animal kingdom is focused on eating to sustain life from dawn until dusk. There’s no day off for the animal kingdom. Here in Silicon Valley, the birds and squirrels are up early and singularly focused on their task of the day. I hear them Read more…