We are settling in with my Mom and Dad who will be with us for the next four months while their house is being built.    It is surprising the childhood triggers that surface in close proximity.  As usual there are always great lessons.  The most significant this morning is how difficult it is to embrace honesty in a culture (family) steeped in history...

Peer Powered Performance™ (P³⁾ is a slow system for fast change designed to methodically, consistently and transparently unleash the energy, creativity, resolve and resilience available in every organization.  P³ is not a one shot, quick fix, “check this one-off the list” solution, but a process for increasing awareness through education, transparency and collaboration.

Peer Powered Performance™ is not a system for revolution but a process for evolution...

Despite being in the profession for almost two decades and receiving a designation earned by less than 10% of professional speakers[i] I am uncomfortable introducing myself as a “motivational speaker”.  Last week when asked to introduce myself to a class on the value of internal social networks I said; “Most people describe me as a ‘Motivational Speaker’ which simply means I get people excited to hear about things they will forget within the week”...

I always believed that Emotional Intelligence (EQ) education was most effectively addressed as individual sets of skills, but I no longer think that is true.  EQ comes in communities.  We have all seen very high EQ people behave in very unconscious ways given the right-wrong environment.  We have also observed very unconscious people lifted to new levels of awareness simply by being in the presence of those few fearless among us...

I recently “pressured” my parents, who are well into their “golden years”, into leaving their beloved Pacific Northwest to live near us here in Boise.  My wife and I spent months creating as much space and comfort as possible so we could all live together comfortably for the five months it would take for their house to be built.  Our cohabitation lasted three weeks.  I failed not just miserably but spectacularly.  I intellectually knew what to do but in the heat of the moments it seemed ...