Wait and it will be too late. We had gone swimming at the same beach in Guam (Gab-Gab) 50 years apart. One of several shards of fun facts I picked up while working with World War II veterans in the early 1990s. Yet I blew my opportunity to learn more. …

Companies need crystallized intelligence. Older workers are your source. Psychologist Raymond Cattell developed the concept of fluid and crystallized intelligence in 1963. Per Wikipedia: Fluid intelligence is the ability to solve novel reasoning problems and is correlated with a number of important skills such as comprehension, problem solving, and learning.[3] …

My constant bane confronts its latest adversary — As with all of my previous hobbies, this one launched on an impulse. One evening I thought: “wouldn’t it be cool to ride a motorcycle across the country?” Two days later I owned a vintage 1974 Moto Guzzi despite never having ridden a motorcycle before. I am 55 years old…

The key to contentment is letting yourself off the hook. — “Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.” — Richard Nixon “All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.” — Babe Ruth This isn’t about buying sweats and “giving up”…

Why did it take a pandemic to finally question the purpose of the Monday through Friday grind? “I’m in the office at 7 a.m. and I leave at 7 at night. I’m trying to make an example.” — Howard Schultz (Starbucks) The best leaders value productivity over convention In the wake of the pandemic and the unionization…

Smartphones and other communication technology are crushing employees and undermining quality productivity. — “When you leave this job I am going to take your work phone and run over it with my car.” I recall the instance at roughly 3 AM on a weeknight when my (former) wife said this to me out of sheer frustration. I was a senior officer in the…