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He awkwardly danced, occasionally blurting out “Puttin’ on the Ritz!” with a guttural scream. Mel Brooks created a classic with the movie “Young Frankenstein,” and Peter Boyle was  unforgettable as the monster. Re-watching the clip below, it made me think about my job working with clients on change. The first thing people say is “you [...]

 Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander have brought together the arts and business in an incredible book called The Art of Possibility. She is a family therapist and landscape painter, he is the conductor for the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and a professor at the New England Conservatory of Music. In spite of the fact that [...]

I sat across from the CEO, watching his face turn several lovely shades of purple as he ranted about the latest sales initiative they had rolled out in a record six weeks. He had expected immediate turn-around on results, and was pounding the table with every word, causing our coffee and cokes to develop actual [...]

How can you not like a man who runs a beet farm after hours and hides weapons around the office? Anybody reading this who is not familiar with the character Dwight Schrute from “The Office,” well, I recommend you rejoin the human race and watch a couple of episodes. For the rest of us, I [...]

Yes, he screams and curses and throws things in kitchens. Let’s admit it, most of us have screamed and cursed and thrown things in a kitchen. But he does it with a  true concern for the restaurant owners and a British accent – which makes him Gordon Ramsey.  I prefer his style on Kitchen Nightmares [...]

Photo by Liza Highfill Standing on the pier at my beach I looked into the ocean and saw more than thirty fins spanning at least a mile of water. Dolphins were following a school of fish. I’m sure the fish would have a different perspective on the moment, but I was moved. There was magic in [...]

Our final segment addresses the ability of story to overshadow data skepticism and other rational drivers.