Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast

For the better part of a decade, I taught an executive development course in Persuasion, with the inimitable David McPhillips.  We searched the world for the latest research into the art and science that makes up the body of knowledge of how people make decisions, and what triggers us to say yes.And yet….And yet knowing how it works doesn’t always prevent us from being worked!  To wit this encounter outside the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts on Front Street in Toronto.A reasonably presentable,

When I was a kid, growing up in a small mountain town in the West Kootenays of BC, summer Sundays meant gardening and washing the concrete sidewalks. My dad was proud of the steps and sidewalks because they were the product of the combined efforts of the neighbourhood’s men, who used a hand mixer and countless wheelbarrows and spades to fill, smooth and edge the layouts. Like barn-raisings of old, this is the way things were done back then.We kids did a bit in the garden, mostly turning the soil to

Peter Drucker noted that what gets measured, gets managed. Other iterations evolved to suggest what gets measured gets done.My take is that what gets measured becomes addictive and compulsive.I received a FitBit many years ago, as a gift from a good friend, and used it slavishly for months until it stopped holding a charge. I never did replace it. I remember one summer when I was relaxing on the sundeck with my daughter. She would, every once in a while, leap from her chair and pound the 85 feet of

Did your social graces suffer a massive setback during the pandemic? Are you only now finding your way back to navigating dinner parties, networking events and conversations involving more than one person at a time?It’s not a trivial trend because, as we lost our opportunities to socialize, we also lost our comfort in communing with strangers and that’s bad for them and for us.To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a subscriber. You DO NOT have to pay to subscribe but hey, I