Is it really daring to innovate? Absolutely.  Proof was apparent here in Dallas Sunday night during a pre-season NFL game between the Cowboys and the Arizona Cardinals. Late Sunday night Yahoo sports writer Jason Owens wrote a piece entitled,

I’d been thinking about this for a good long while. Many private conversations have been had in recent years about it, too.  Language and demeanor.  Retired NFL head coach and current NBC Sports football commentator Tony Dungy was on a local sports tal...

These days scaling is all the rage. And talk. Start-up’s focus on scaling as quickly as possible as they struggle to escape the gravitational pull of business failure. When we’re not trying to scale, then we’re trying to hack,

Okay, we can’t possibly make all the right assumptions, but we can improve making our assumptions serve us better. For today’s show we could use “expectations” and “assumptions” interchangeably.  I’d sum it up like this: be convinced you can instead of...

Everybody gets stuck every now and again. For some, it’s a chronic condition they may not even be aware of. It happens often when we’re entrenched in our industry and our business. Nobody understands our industry like we do,

Today is as good a day as any to simplify the name of the podcast. The focus is still aimed at helping leaders, particularly small business owners, but let’s just go by “Daily Brief” shall we? It’s easier to say. And to remember.

There’s a little documentary on Netflix called, “Long Shot.” Here’s how Sports Illustrated teased the release of the documentary. The case dates back to August 2003. Los Angeles Dodgers fan Juan Catalan was arrested for the murder of 16-year-old Martha...

On Monday Today.com posted an article entitled, “How to avoid life’s biggest regrets, enjoy the best years: Advice from 90-year-olds.” A 34-year-old United Methodist minister, Lydia Sohn, not a researcher, wanted to know what older people regretted mos...

Selfishness is not a leadership trait. But some other “self” traits are very much necessary. Self-awareness Self-confidence Self-control Self-help What do you think of when you hear the term “self-help?” I think of all the hours spent in brick and mort...

We don’t want to admit it, but sometimes we hide. Everybody does it. Sometimes.  Some people do it often. I’ve even known people who appeared to do it all the time! We don’t call it hiding. We’re just waiting for the right time to handle it.