On March 13th — or Friday the 13th— I celebrated a birthday with my family in Encinitas, California. My daughter cooked an incredible dinner, and my Dad, who I’m lucky enough to share my birthday with, was so happy everyone was together. I could see in his eyes, just how much he appreciated everyone being together.
Today, I reinforced, for myself, a very important part of business and life. I think it’s worth talking about — how important it is to Just Show Up. Whether you want to or not, if invited or asked, always, just show up. It’s that simple. Let me give you two examples, and I’ll show you
Coming off the Natural Products Expo, I’ve realized one thing in a big way. We, as humans, where never meant to experience the type of emotional and business stimulus that comes from bringing 70,000 passionate people together. Even if it is for a good reason… health and wellness. It creates what I call Natural Products Stimulus
Recently, I was working with a young entrepreneur who has an incredible vision for a product. In fact, he already has prototypes that operate at about 60% of what his expectation is. What was really interesting to me was to watch how different people react to this start-up’s product. What hit me was that questioning
This week, I am working with an organization where I’m facing a performance issue for the entire team. I’ve been coaching the CEO behind the scenes, and he’s really struggling. He’s trying to find a way to address a performance issue. He’s confronted the Senior Manager of the team, but it didn’t go well. Many times,
Natural Products Expo West 2015 just wrapped up yesterday. It was busier than I have ever seen it before with 70,000 people that came to find about new products that can make a difference to them and the world. It is a positive upbeat group with a lot of energy. Better food is expected to grow
Last week was a fantastic learning experience for me. I’ve been working with the CEO of a company who is working on technology that is incredibly exciting. In fact, he is doing really great things for the planet. Over dinner, when I gave him Kudos for the work and breakthroughs he has achieved, he didn’t look
Yesterday, my colleague Dave Carter and I where invited to a Uruguayan barbecue at the Estancia, Florida, Home of Edgardo Irigaray. The farm home was beautiful, the indoor barbecue unbelievable. Dave entertained a Uruguayan who’s who of the State of Florida — as well as dignitaries like governors and ambassadors who were in attendance
It’s amazing to me how many people in business believe that good meetings are meetings that result in yet another meeting. When I recently became aware that our own creative team had become bogged down in another such meeting syndrome, it occurred to me that what we really needed to do was to stop “putting our heads together” so much