Pinkcasts: short, informal, low-fi videos offering tips, recommendations, or whatever happens to be on my mind. Sent on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of every month.

When your team needs someone to lean on, be the rock.

Story about people who accidentally kill another person

Back in 2004, when BlackBerries were still called CrackBerries, the Boston Consulting Group agreed to a risky experiment. To set the scene, BCG, as it’s known, is a global management consulting firm of twelve thousand employees who bring in five billion dollars in revenue from the biggest companies

As a 15-year-old who aspires to be an engineer, I admire people like Elon Musk. How do you think someone could be as successful as him without being as smart as him? This question was originally answered on Quora by Jim Cantrell.

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One of the key principles of change from John Kotter's book, Leading Change

She tried to dispose of the unflushable waste out of a window and got stuck trying to get it back.

I spent part of the summer reading a slew of books that come out in the next few months. There are more exciting fall releases than I’ve ever seen before.

Work is impermanent — reinvention is rational

A new study shows that an incidental short walk has an uplifting effect on mood, even when you don't expect it to. By Christian Jarrett

Matt Bencke thought he’d thrown out his back. Then he received the most sobering news of his life.

As companies move to the “Talent Cloud,” the future of teamwork will be challenged. Conference calls fail. Consider a recent study by Intercall, which revealed what people are doing while on conference calls. Yikes! This segues nicely into the obligatory “some of the stranger places respondents admitted to being ...

Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing.

Information and opinions about leadership and management development by expert Dan McCarthy

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At elite colleges, faculty members have been noticing a problem. Many students, while impressive on paper, seem to be unable to cope with simple struggles—getting assigned to a dorm room they’re not thrilled with, scoring less than an A-minus on a midterm, or not making the cut on school teams. The lack of resilience has become so apparent that Smith College now offers an entire course on how to fail. (One uncomfortable class project: having your worst failures projected onto a large screen in the campus hub. Ouch.)

A few years ago I read an article by Adam Bryant, the “Corner Office” Columnist for the New York Times, that led with this provocative question: “What if you had to write a ‘User Manual’ about your leadership style?” Bryant describes how transparency about our work style – our preferences, values,

Anny Divya, born in India, beat the odds to become the youngest female commander of a Boeing 777. She holds her position with Air India.

I took the helm of PepsiCo in 2006 and I feel so privileged and humbled for the role I’ve had the chance to play. I’ve faced many challenges over the years – as we all do – but with inspiration from family, friends, colleagues and other sources of wisdom, I’ve learned many lessons along the way.

Every new business model was a new mental model.

If hiking is about a destination, forest bathing is about an immersion of the senses into the natural world. It's a wellness trend, and studies suggest several health benefits.