So let’s talk a bit about the Will Smith Chris Rock slap incident. While the meme game surrounding the incident is pretty strong, there...

If you’re reading this, that means you’re interested in leadership and are thinking that if you find read that next article, you’ll find...

Writing with humor is often difficult. It’s even harder still to catch the humor when we read, as accustomed as we are to believing that...

The classical pianist/humorist Victor Borge once said “the shortest distance between two people is a smile.” Authenticity has become an...

Last week’s post set up the idea that many of those leadership lists are either incorrect or incomplete, or they’re pedaling a falsehood....

Take a look around at any lists of the qualities any leader needs to have. You’ll be sure to see words like intelligence, integrity,...

I want to take a moment and wish everyone a great and fulfilling new year. The year that was 2020 was chock full of challenges. It was...

We all have to face difficult situations. Some of them of our making and others the world drops unceremonoiusly in our laps, as in the...

In this last of a three-part series on humor and interviews, I want to focus on a background thought or assumption that’s important. It’s...

This post is the third one in a four-part series on using humor in interviews. The first one just related a story of a time when I was...

Humorous Interviews In last week’s post I wrote about a time when I was asked to tell a joke in an interview. And to repeat, that’s not...

You often hear that you should stay away from using humor in interviews or when in meetings with new people or in formal spaces. This is...