People ask me why I enjoy a simple, “bottom of the food chain” existence. Those who ask obviously don’t understand the power of servant leadership or where real power comes from.
A real knowledge of power and the power structure always comes from the bottom up. It’s why it’s a good thing to start your career sweeping floors or in the mail room and move up. Poor people have always understood the power structure of rich people better than the rich understood the poor. Blacks have always had a firmer …

Twitter is doomed. DOOMED. Not only do they not have enough people to run it, they have no customer service, are easily hacked and are becoming an increasing threat to users as hackers, spammers, phishers and porn sites are taking over. Passwords are easily compromised and that new friend you’re talking to? Could be anyone from a serial killer to a stalker.
Kids on Twitter are at an increasing risk for predators. People’s homes are being burglarized, more and more marketers are trying to find ways to monetize the application - …

The cliche refers to a honeybee I’m sure, but the bees here in Virginia yesterday were mostly bumblebees. I spent most of the day “smelling the flowers,” and playing with my dog Koko, who’s now almost 10 years old, and in dog years that means she’s passed her life expectancy. Every day with her now is a gift. So every stick I toss that she can hobble after, or every time I pet her, give her a treat or just sit and hold her I am fully present. I don’t …

Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology that proposes people act or are motivated by a predetermined order of needs. Those needs, physiological, safety, etc are predetermined in order of importance. That order is often depicted as a pyramid consisting of five levels: the lowest level is associated with physiological needs, while the uppermost level is associated with self-actualization needs, particularly those related to identity and purpose.
Maslow’s hierarchy is one of the first theories taught to marketing students as a basis for understanding consumers’ motives for action. …

What exactly am I doing on the road, in a van with a Rottweiler, wandering around America interviewing people about what makes them “stay hungry” for more? Call it a mid-life crisis, call it an adventure, call it inspiration. It’s all of those.
When my father died in 2006 I took to the road to cope with his death, to re-evaluate my own life, to find freedom and release on the asphalt ribbons that wound around the Rockies. My then excellent adventure became a year of homelessness as I refused to …