Category: Leadership

Leadership Moment: Empty Platitudes Since I have two teenagers, this summer has included college scouting, with our last two weeks including 4 college visits. At one of them, a very large state school, the person running the information session said, “There are a lot of ways to make a big school feel like a little…

Leadership Moment: Chasing a Non-Story Daniel Rosney, BBCNews reporter, was assigned to report on the death of Lil Tay. Except Lil Tay wasn’t dead. While numerous outlets took a single Instagram post and ran with it, Daniel spent the day trying to verify the story. He spent a lot of energy – over ten hours…

Leadership Moment: Missed Shoutouts I recently completed my one thousandth ride on my Peloton, and, like most riders, I planned my schedule to do it during a live ride, in hopes of getting a shoutout from one of my favorite instructors. Unfortunately, that day the class was short, and only in-studio riders were celebrated for…

Leadership Moment: Plans Change Last weekend, my wife and I had great plans. Her plan was scheduled hour-by-hour for a full week: she was going to a memorial service in Santa Fe, with days to tourist and vacation and catch up with old friends. My plan was loosely defined: I was going to drive out…

Leadership Moment: Switching Sides The Boston Renegades won their fifth consecutive WFA Pro Championship, propelling QB Allison Cahill to her eighth championship ring (Tom Brady stopped at seven). The MVP however, wasn’t Cahill – it was Whitney Zelee, defensive end. This isn’t the first time Zelee has taken championship MVP honors. In 2011 and 2014,…

Leadership Moment: Small Acts of Leadership I recently joined in as a guest in Chris Cochran’s The Art of Cybersecurity Leadership, and it was a fantastic crowd. It was styled as an AMA (Ask Me Anything), and the participants came armed with a number of leadership questions for me (some of which I jotted down…

Leadership Moment: “Garbage” Time This was a good weekend for Boston sports. The New England Free Jacks won their first Major League Rugby championship, and the Boston Renegades are heading back to Canton to defend their WFA Pro champion title. One of these games was close – the Freejacks won by one point – while…

Leadership Moment: Not wasting your shot “We have a tradition here at BSides Tel Aviv,” Keren Elazari said to me in the green room. “I’ll have a shot with you on stage. It can be before your talk, or after your talk, or whenever. When do you want to do it, and what do you…

Leadership Moment: Submerging Your Voice If you were on any part of the Internet last week, you probably heard about the lost OceanGate submersible. As with almost any ongoing newsworthy event, there were a lot of opinions, as people across the Internet engaged in the roleplaying game of “being an instant expert on a complex…