Highfill Performance Group

My favorite literary character in the entire universe is Don Quixote.  I fell in love with him when I was fourteen years-old and first read Cervantes’s masterpiece. Now that I’m in my fifties, I finally understand why this character moved into my heart and never left. For those of you who have not read Don [...]

Since I’ve spent at least 65% of my life reading, I’m going to justify that time by sharing my opinions with you. At least twice a month I will provide three sentences on what I consider the top three books on a certain change topic. Hence the 3×3. I start with the people side of [...]

I am in the middle of a lot of personally-invoked change, and the prospect of an unsure future worries me. And my dog doesn’t care. It’s not that he doesn’t care about ME, it’s that he doesn’t understand why I am worried about what hasn’t happened yet. He lives totally in the moment. If he’s [...]

Change is a delicate thing, and it soars on the wings of energy that is built with trust. Years ago, I witnessed a leader who was asked to introduce a new initiative. He kicked off with an enthusiastic leadership call, engaging his audience with benefits while establishing absolute clarity around next steps. Everyone on the [...]

As a child I never had a security blanket, but I did have a stuffed animal named “Cutie-pie.” I can still see him (yes, somehow I knew it was male). He was white with black eyes, black nose, red velvet ears, and a red tongue. He was in a sitting position, and had a small [...]

An acorn fell on an unsuspecting, nervous chicken. Unaware that it was an acorn, Chicken Little decided it was something much, much bigger. Henny Penny: “Where are you going, Chicken Little?” Chicken Little: “Oh help! The sky is falling!” Henny Penny: “How do you know?” Chicken Little: “I saw it with my own eyes, and [...]