Workplace Adaptability: Winning The Future Talent War
It is becoming painfully apparent that we’re on the cusp of a new reality that necessitates workplace adaptability. We are actively living with five unprecedented crises simultaneously facing us: a global pandemic, an economic calamity, the racial and social justice crisis, the dilemmas of an all-digital, work-anywhere environment, and an ever-growing leadership chasm. And, I […]
WITHOUT NOTICING, HERE’S HOW THE GLOBAL PANDEMIC FORCED YOU TO IMPROVE YOUR CHARACTER
As we now surpass 100,000 deaths nationally due to the global pandemic and now witness civil unrest occurring not just in America but also around the world, it is definetly a time for self-reflection. Each of those countless victims was for someone their loved one, for others a friend, and for many of us, although we didn’t know them […]
THE WORLD IS FINALLY TAKING NOTICE OF BRAZIL’s HUMANITARIAN CRISIS. BUT IS IT TOO LATE?
Which would you rather? Go to work in a face-to-face setting with no physical protection against COVID-19 in an environment where it’s spreading like wildfire, or see your children go without food and experience a humanitarian crisis? If you thought the current situation in America was tough, that’s the dilemma those living Brazilian favelas face […]
THE GLOBAL DILEMMA OF FINDING THE RIGHT APPROACH TO EXITING LOCKDOWN
Countries all over the world have taken steps to “flatten the curve” of the coronavirus pandemic through restrictive lockdown measures over the last two months. At one point, those measures ensnared 3.9 billion citizens globally. With infection rates easing, attention has turned to address the question of how to restore life across over a hundred nations to […]
WHY DOES THE WORLD CRAVE IRON MAN BUT NEEDS CAPTAIN AMERICA?
“The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self,” Edward Bulwer-Lytton once said. This analogy holds even more truth in our present 2020 crisis than it did when he penned it 150 years ago. One of the reasons the Marvel movies have become so successful is they provide us with heroes whose ideals we can […]
The Covid-19 Pandemic Will Alter Career Lives But Not in the Alarming Ways Many Predict
Forbes recently published an article by senior contributor Jack Ryan in which he describes how the Covid-19 Pandemic will change career lives in alarming ways for the foreseeable future. In it, he uses a couple of thousand words of predictions explaining how the current pandemic will shape and change the lives of Americans post-Coronavirus. Although I respect […]
Why Millennials Stand the Best Chance to Overcome Their Second Once-in-a-Lifetime Crisis
I have read far too many articles like these in The Atlantic, Business Insider, and Fortune from Millennial authors asserting the fact that their peers don’t stand a chance as a result of the latest crisis impacting them. These authors are prematurely publishing articles writing off their own generation with reckless abandon. And, not only do they […]
50 Years Later: How the COVID-19 Crisis is the Reverse of the Apollo 13 Mission
When the two NASA astronauts, Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan, return to earth this week, it will mark 50 years since the very day the Apollo 13 mission, commanded by James Lovell, also landed back on earth. During Apollo 13 the Crisis Was In Space. […]
The Overview Effect: Through the Lens of NASA Astronaut Chris Cassidy
I was fortunate to interview Navy SEAL and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy for my upcoming book just days before he launches to the International Space Station to take Command of Expedition 63. In this discussion, Cassidy and I discuss the “overview effect” that many astronauts experience and how through its lens we can see the world […]
Navigating COVID-19 Through the Power of Perspective
It is truly amazing the impact COVID-19 is having on our daily lives. And, it is equally amazing what harnessing the power of perspective can alter in your life during times of crisis. Why is it Important to View COVID-19 Through the Power of Perspective? I am writing this article that is featured on LinkedIn, not […]