We Can Do Better

We Can Do Better

We Can Do Better This fundraising campaign called BuyLife, for the organization calling itself “Keep a Child Alive,” leaves me cold! Everything about it strategically and tactically is just wrong. Wrong! It’s not clever, edgy, ironic. It’s just...
Water

Water

Water My community north of Boston has been included in the emergency restricted water use program since Saturday evening. The report is that the main water pipe supplying fresh water to 2 million people in over 700,000 homes broke. The flow to the broken pipe was...
Up there

Up there

Up there Quite often clients will offer up images/metaphors in coaching sessions that we just go with! There is always something to work with. I notice the presence of cliffs lately…lots of cliffs, ledges, canyons, voids. Clients are up high looking down or out...
Tugboats

Tugboats

Tugboats As I am sitting at my desk catching up on some e-mail I notice a very traditionally styled, very sweet tug boat chugging by my window (I live at the ocean…). Bright red with white trim, big tire “bumpers” dangling off the side rails, and a...
Trail Angels

Trail Angels

Trail Angels Some mornings reading the daily newspaper can be daunting. Increasing gas prices, economic uncertainty, home foreclosures, and the latest antics of celebrities or politicians. For years now, reading the newspaper (and having coffee) in the morning is my...