By Michael Patrick O’Brien– “You have breast cancer.” I can still hear those somber words, spoken by a nurse to my wife Vicki (and me) in a small hospital conference…

By Jathan Janove (Guest Contributor)– Concert violinist, conductor, and Distinguished Professor of Violin at Carnegie Mellon University, Andres Cardenes (see his website at: http://www.andrescardenes.com/) and I go back a great…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Some unexpected graces have charmed my diligent efforts to comply with our governor’s stay-at-home and work-at-home coronavirus directives. They are the rose bushes growing just outside…

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…

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…