“No one gives you power. You have to take it from them.” Nancy Pelosi Nancy Pelosi’s Last Battle “You have to skate where the puck is going, not where it has been.” Wayne Gretzky’s statement could be the most famous aphorism of our lifetimes, yet still many ignore it. That’s why Irving Azoff continues to […]

“Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis” Why are the tireless self-promoters always the ones who fall from grace? Why do they always have blind spots? Why do we buy their act and then find out it’s built on fiction? We knew this. Sheryl Sandberg lived a charmed life with little loss, […]

Maybe it’s not about the horse race but the underpinnings, maybe it’s not about whether the Democrats failed to take over the Senate as much as who got elected. Like Kyrsten Sinema. An atheist bisexual from the land of Goldwater. My, how Arizona has changed. My, how the PUBLIC has changed. With two years to […]

That’s why you travel, for the perspective! You think you know what’s going on, have a hold on the situation, and then your whole world view is blown apart. Live in the U.S. and you believe it’s a hip-hop world, listen to the bands at Iceland Airwaves and then you find out it’s not. You […]