It's November 28th and we're closing in on the last month of 2025.  Let's make it a great one.  I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday and you were able to be surrounded by family and friends.  Hopefully, it was a time to reflect and be filled with gratitude.  

Here's what I'm ex...

Monday Security Memo

Intellectual Firepower for Professionals

Turkey with a Side of Intellectual Firepower

The Thanksgiving holiday takes place in the United States. It is a day to gather around the dinner table with loved ones and give thanks for all that is good in our lives (and ...

Monday Security Memo

Intellectual Firepower for Professionals

“You don't understand the strength of a team until you are pushed beyond your limits.”

— Gene Kranz

When an oxygen tank exploded aboard Apollo 13 on April 13, 1970, 200,000 miles from Earth, the three astronauts aboard —...

It was a busy week with a lot of commuting between Sarasota and Tampa.

Here's what I'm exploring this week...

AUDIO BOOK I'M LISTENING TO...

Failure is Not an Option by Gene Kranz. I own a hardcopy of this book. However, as I am delivering an emergency response course in a few weeks I ...

Monday Security Memo

Intellectual Firepower for Professionals

Endure It... Stop Complaining

“If it is endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Life is not fair. It...

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Intellectual Firepower for Professionals

“The difference in people's lives is the difference in their standards.”

- Tony Robbins

My old high school football coach, John Sprague, gave me some of the best advice I ever received in the form of three simple words: ...

I'm looking forward to spending time with family and friends this evening and taking my little guy tricker-treating (he's Spiderman).   

Here's what I'm exploring this week...  

BOOK I'M READING...

Taking Religion Seriously by Charles Murray. This is Murray’s autobiographical reflection o...

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Intellectual Firepower for Professionals

Adapt or Die

“There are two options... adapt or die.”

- Andy Grove

Change is not a threat. It is the price of progress. History has shown that those who resist change do not merely fall behind... they disappear. In an e...

I spent the week catching up on a backlog of emails.  Somedays I feel like my job consists of sitting in front of a keyboard just responding to requests.  I don't mind it... but, I find that I can only do it every few days (otherwise, I wouldn't be able to do other things that need to get done)...

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Intellectual Firepower for Professionals

The Einstein Mindset Shift

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

- Albert Einstein

We all face moments that test us - the deal that falls through, the argument that cuts deep, the failure that stings. Our natu...

Dear A,

I've been in Washington DC all week conducting a CARVER course. It's been fun to reconnect with old friends in the city I lived in for 20 years.

BOOK I'M READING...

The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown. Ever since I read The Da Vinci Code years ago, I’ve devoured every Dan Bro...

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Intellectual Firepower for Professionals

Victims vs. Victors

“Winners don't complain... they're too busy getting better.”

- Nick Saban

Dear A,

Every week, we all face a choice.

We can walk into Monday as a victim — defeated before the game even starts — o...