May 5, 2026 Last week I had an observation related to music and organizational leadership. I love it when my diverse interests come together! As I’m fond of pointing out how creative solutions come from diverse thinking, I was recently…
To Boldly Go…
September 4, 2025 I’ll admit it: I’m a Star Trek fan. But not a hardcore, “go to the conventions” style fan. Over the years, I’ve watched The Original Series (TOS), The Next Generation (TNG), a bit of Voyager, Discovery, and…
Soft Power: Hard Consequences
August 4, 2025 Recently, I penned an opinion piece in the Tulsa World on the ways in which America is throwing away one of its most cost-effective methods of persuasion on the world stage: soft power. The Tulsa World version…
Innovation ≠ Adoption
August 5, 2025 In the early days of the Internet, I was helping my friend Steve Jones do research on a book that grew to be “The Internet for Educators and Homeschoolers.” One of the things that came out back…
Small lady, big impact: remembering Barbara Horgan
In our lives and careers, no one makes it alone. Everyone has colleagues and mentors who generously give their time to help make us better people. This is why I seek to pay it forward with my teams and colleagues…
The Mayor of Jerusalem
The Persistence of Memory September 4, 2023 Do you ever read something, maybe while searching for something else, and you find it sticks with you? You may not fully remember it, or where you read it, but you find it…
First, Do No Harm: Ethics, and Elevating IT Leadership to a Profession
July 9, 2023 “I’ve looked at life from both sides now. From up and down and still somehow…” When you’re an IT leader, you need to remember the words of Hippocrates. No, not those words. In addition to the famous…
“The Doctor will see you now…”
April 23, 2023 Every Therapist needs their own Therapist. When you’re a leader and change agent, you have to be a therapist sometimes — to the folks who report to you and to the organization as a whole. Your job…
“Ladies and Gentlemen, the Quiet Quitters!”
“If work violates your values, quitting is an expression of integrity.” Adam Grant, Author & Organizational Psychologist February 27, 2023 This last Christmas, I was talking to a friend who didn’t understand Quiet Quitting. What my friend didn’t understand was…
Momentum
Today is my 60th Day with my new employer. My team asked me recently, “Why do you keep count like this?” I tell them that it’s to preserve momentum — forward movement. Coming into a new organization, with challenges and…