McDonald’s Theory

I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s.

An interesting thing happens. Everyone unanimously agrees that we can’t possibly go to McDonald’s, and better lunch suggestions emerge…

The Facebook experiment has failed. Let’s go back.

The Best Second Option

What Makes a Relationship “Successful?”

Sorry, I Can’t Hear You Over All This Feedback

As a musician, the prevalence of, and reliance upon, feedback in the corporate…

The Best Worst of Sensory Overload

“How can you tell if a baby is colicky?” I asked at our son’s first doctor’s appointment, not quite three weeks after his complicated-yet-healthy birth. The doctor, younger than this Advanced Age Mother, dismissed the notion: Crying is how newborns communicate their…

Always With The Pre-Read

Companies big and small spend a lot of time and money on complex processes to deliver, to produce. But even the best of these processes are usually the long way around to an answer your gut told you six to eight weeks ago was the right decision. Make no mistake: Not all processes are…