Brilliance Extraction

Have you heard Price Law? Perhaps you have heard of the Pareto rule which states that 80% of results stem from 20% of efforts. Or, 80% of revenues come from 20% of your customers. And so on. I knew this. I have seen this principle at work firsthand when I analyzed the results of various […]

Happy Thanksgiving to you! It is the day when we Americans focus on expressing our gratitude for our many blessings. Hopefully, we do this more than once per year! Thank YOU!!! I want to express, once again, my gratitude to YOU! You have been with me for 77 Brilliance Nuggets by now. Today is number

Many businesses are hurting for labor right now. There is intense competition for bringing people onboard. In such case, do your company have a system on the smarter way to train new staff? At the same time, many people are rethinking which jobs they want to do going forward. They are looking for good pay,

Can a picture be worth more than a thousand words? Recently, I wrote a Brilliance Nugget about “Saying the right words to the right people.” This got me thinking further about this question: If one had to express the purpose of your business or organization in a few words what would they be? Which words

This is a story about “pulling your hair out” while working to create something new and creating the most magnificent thing. It does have a happy ending though. Thank goodness! In fact, it is my own story. A dear friend of mine who is a branding expert had pointed out something that I already felt

As most of you know already, my friend Robert “made” me do it. He challenged me to write one short Brilliance Nugget per day for one year. 365 Brilliance Nuggets days! These nuggets are fun, informative, and refreshingly short. To visualize my journey, I have compared this adventure to hiking the 2,200 miles Appalachian Trail

Recently, I was catching up with a friend I hadn’t seen in at least three years. He had seen a Brilliance Nugget on LinkedIn and we got into contact again. It was great to connect again and thought of saying the right words to the right people! The friend is working as a consultant with

Nowadays, we face more rapid change than any other generation before. Leaders in every aspect of our society are working hard to keep up with this pace of change. The value of an expert is shifting a lot today. Company leaders. Leaders of non-profits. Leaders of schools and their districts. Parents and teachers. Consider that