The Backpack Nobody Wants to Carry

The Backpack Nobody Wants to Carry

Several years ago, I coached a highly successful executive who unexpectedly lost his job. One day he was the CEO. The next day he was the former CEO.  Lots of heavy emotions came quickly: shock, regret, anger, embarrassment, disappointment, fear, shame, and...
The Places That Formed Us 

The Places That Formed Us 

I took a drive recently through Columbus, Georgia—where I lived for ten years during my twenties and early thirties.  I stopped at Holy Family Catholic Church, the parish I attended for nearly a decade and where I spent countless Sundays. As I sat in the...
The Most Expensive Person You’ll Ever Fire

The Most Expensive Person You’ll Ever Fire

Through the years of working with executives in a variety of roles and businesses, I’ve been involved in—and have witnessed—a lot of terminations.  And the hardest ones aren’t who most people think.  It’s not the underperforming division president who’s...