I frequently get asked about the best way to get a book published. Following is a quick guide to the practicalities of the sometimes confusing current world of book publishing, based on decades of experience helping dozens of clients navigate that world. The good news today is that you, the…

How do you feel about powerful people? Are you powerful yourself, or do you wish you were? What do you expect from powerful people? When I ask speakers and executives how they want to be perceived, hardly anyone ever says, “powerful.” They often say “strong, expert, confident,” but hardly ever…

How should speakers, writers, and other communicators talk about change most effectively? Not the way we’ve been doing it. Not with all the moral outpourings that usually go with the change imperative. How else? To understand the answer, it’s important to think about how we deal with change. Not well. …

I started blogging15 years ago, with a post about the ancient Greeks and Romans — specifically about an amphitheater I had visited in Fiesole, a tiny town in the Tuscan hills of Italy which nonetheless supports some very respectable Roman ruins, including a substantial baths, Etruscan villas, and the aforesaid…