Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.Mark Twain … [Read more...]

Evaluate talent through the right lens.  Focus on what people do well, and what they can do to get better. Too often, we evaluate talent with an eye on the equitable distribution of the salary pool. That is the wrong lens. People work for … [Read more...]

Sixteen days of hotel rooms, fancy foods,  life without my dogs, probably more wine than could be good even for my spare liver, and finally we are heading home. Prague, Como, Milan in the books. Valrico, Florida and my ugly dogs await. I feel so … [Read more...]

Think of it as liquid gold, and clearly my happy place. On the Swiss Italian border, nestled in the foothills of the Alps is a 55 acre vineyard called AGRILORO. They grow 28 varieties of grapes and sell about 180,000 bottles of wine a year. We met … [Read more...]