A friend of mine, Peter Winick, recently made the following observation. “When you’re ten years old, you can only go as far as your bike will take you. Anything further than two miles may as well be two-thousand miles.” Some of us are completely comfortable jumping on a plane for a business meeting. Myself, I’ve […]

Today, I wrote a column on the Invincibelle blog about an interesting piece of research published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers looked at people who were quitting smoking, and they located several interesting findings: A person’s decision to quit smoking is significantly influenced by their network–not only the people they know but […]

When you’re tring to build a new relationship with someone, it’s tempting to talk about yourself and topics you’re comfortable. That’s especially true when you’re meeting face-to-face with someone for meals or coffee in town. However, if you’re trying to build a connection with someone in another state or across the world, you actually have […]

These days, the people who are most important to our success don?t always work in the same office (or even the same country). A global company may locate 1/2 of a team in rural Wisconsin and the other half just outside of London. One of my colleagues lives in rural Texas (1.5 hours west of […]