The Intersection Of Art And Leadership

On September 21, 2017

Last weekend I found the annual Alexandria Art Festival right in the middle of my weekend walking route. Normally I’d bypass it and take an alternate path. This time I chose to play around and see what caught my eye as I walked up one side and down the other (3500 more steps on my Garmin!). What

Get Real, Be Real—The Impact Of Authenticity

On July 27, 2017

“That’s who I am. They will just have to learn to deal with it.” That was the self-justification of a manager proclaiming her ‘authenticity’ and leaving a trail of employees reeling and ducking for cover. This person voiced whatever came to her mind, often with hurtful impact. That was ‘being real’ in her view. At

Taking Stock–What To Keep? What To Cut?

On June 7, 2016

While on a tour of a small port producer in the Douro Valley in Portugal last week, Cesar the owner explained that all the vines we see are Portuguese native grapes (in this case we were looking at Touriga Nacional vines) grafted onto American root stock. As a result of the Phylloxera outbreak in the