What’s In a Name?

What’s In a Name?

What’s In a Name? Notice my logo? Well, there’s a little story. I invented the logo in the third grade when I decided to run for student council treasurer at Rosedell Elementary School. “Watch your money grow with Gary Groth, ” I said from the stage in the...
Whatchamacallit

Whatchamacallit

Whatchamacallit A long while ago I had a meeting with the head of a large corporate foundation in the cosmetology industry. He was very nice, extremely receptive to our cause, made a large financial contribution, and provided some amazing access to other leaders in...
What Lingers In the Space

What Lingers In the Space

What Lingers In the Space It’s been a rough autumn. And winter. I got pneumonia and have been really sick for some time now. What an interruption to my life. Lucky for me, I was able to identify the moment of infection…and even “Patient Zero.”...
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...