Dave’s Really Bad Day: A Prius, An Ambulance and UCLA
It’s true what they say about car accidents. At least the bad ones. Or at the least the only bad one that I’ve had—last Wednesday night. I don’t remember the Prius taxi cab turning to…
An Empirical Life
This week, I wrote two blogs. CBS Money Watch focuses on the mindset of great leaders, and paints a picture of what companies would look like if Empirical Leaders ran things. The Huffington Post goes…
Personal Lessons from Lonmin
My CBS Money Watch blog post this week focused on the recent violence and related tragedies at Lonmin in South Africa. While working on The Three Laws of Performance with my co-author Steve Zaffron, I spent…
Rule #1 of Communication: How to Save the World
Rule #1 of communication is to say something in real time about what bugs you. If something another person does bugs you, you’ve got about a week to say something before the issue sinks into…
The Two People, and Three Months, that will Change Your Life
In this week’s CBS Money Watch blog, The Most Important Message to Leaders, I wrote about three factors of iconic leadership: your core values, great gift, and cross-trained intuition.[br] The challenge you’ll have is that…