by Mike Cobb | Oct 25, 2017 | Leadership Culture and Personal Development
I assume that most if not all of us would answer “I want both”. But what if you had to choose one or the other? Would you choose to be happy even if you had no clear, well-defined and committed purpose in life? Or would you choose instead to live a life of meaning even if it meant being miserable? A cogent argument…
by Mike Cobb | Oct 19, 2017 | Leadership Culture and Personal Development
What do you do if you overhear a conversation among strangers that is so egregious, that runs counter to your fundamental principles, that you have to speak up and say, “wait a minute…
by Mike Cobb | Jul 12, 2017 | Leadership Culture and Personal Development
Back in March I wrote an article, Amidst the Cacophony, that touched on the power of silent meditation and attending to the “soft, still voices that come from the depths” in an age of sensory overload. In that article I…
by Mike Cobb | May 3, 2017 | Leadership Culture and Personal Development
While I have never been a big fan of LBJ, I have always found this quote both amusing and emblematic of his ability to accomplish his objectives by bringing his seeming…
by Mike Cobb | Apr 26, 2017 | Leadership Culture and Personal Development
J. Larry Jones has horse racing in his blood. From an early age he must have known he was destined to be a horseman, and a great one at that. Larry’s a horse trainer. A trainer…
by Mike Cobb | Apr 19, 2017 | Leadership Culture and Personal Development
Back in the mid- to late-nineties I did a lot of work in South America. While in the throes of working through the terms of a business arrangement, my Colombian business partner made …