By Jathan Janove (Guest Contributor)– My friend Max began his career in operations and later became drawn to the human resource field. Before his retirement, Max served as chief human…
Posts published by “Mike O'Brien”
By Gary Topping– I grew up on the southern Oregon coast where, so it seems, it rains about three hundred days a year. A high school friend once ventured the…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Hair! I’ve had a strange and wonderful relationship with it. My hair is wonderful, but I have this strange internal conflict about its proper length. Early…
By Jathan Janove (Guest Contributor)– Along with New York Times bestselling author Marshall Goldsmith and Chris Coffey, Frank Wagner created Stakeholder Centered Coaching, one of the most successful and widespread…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– It’s a common question. I heard my mother ask it and my older brother too. As I get older, I better understand why they asked it.…
By Jathan Janove (Guest Contributor)– My longtime, close friend Suzanne Tornquist is a virtuoso artist. (You can see her work at: http://suzannetornquist.com/) When we visit Salt Lake City, my wife…
By Jathan Janove (Guest Contributor)– My cousins Steffi and Paul have long since been retired. Yet, you wouldn’t get a sense of that from how busy they keep themselves, including…
By Gary Topping– Ever since the onset of the corona virus, when health officials began recommending closure of businesses, cancellation of large gatherings, and voluntary quarantines, I have been thinking…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– It is the classic movie scene of the apocalypse film genre—tall buildings, intact but abandoned, on a deserted street, where the only sound or sign of…
By Jathan Janove (Guest Contributor)– Since the bars were closed this St. Patrick’s Day, I figured I needed to do something different with my old friend Michael Patrick O’Brien, creator…