There is a catbird who hangs out on the street light right outside my home office window. The other day I sat at the computer, mute and mesmerized, and listened to him for a full 15 minutes: he warbled and tweeted (the real kind), burbled and sang, chortled and...
In our Introduction to Go-Givers Sell More, Bob Burg and I tried an experiment: we pre-announced a web site that didn’t yet exist. Here’s what we wrote: “It’s easy to get distracted by daily headlines and nightly newscasts that focus on the exploits of the well-heeled...
When I was a kid, there was a boy I knew in the class two grades above me (he was two years older). I knew him because we were both faculty kids: his dad was the music teacher, and my mom taught fifth grade, as well as some music and theater. Actually, she had been...
I just spent an hour as a guest on a conference call for Spencer Reynolds’s wonderful reading group, Book Readers Club. Spencer has been leading this group, dubbed “Where Dedicated Learners Come Together Every Week,” for some five years now. Participants hail from all...
Some of you will remember a post I wrote last summer, when Ana was traveling the globe and I sat at home on our deck in central Massachusetts, eating good meals and watching the garden with Ana’s mom, Sylvia. The post was about a story Sylvia told me one evening,...
