Blake's Blog
Emotional Impairment
Remember 1982 and that brain-rut-inducing Thomas Dolby song, She Blinded Me with Science?
Science...
Leadership, the University & Poor vs. Great Leaders
While literally countless important questions swirl around us every day, there are few that stimulate...
The Story of Life, by Lauren Leath, age 8
It has been raining for several days now. The weather is cool, there'...
Rest in Peace, Coach John Wooden
JohnWooden,RIP,June4,2010.pdf (130.19 kb)
Creativity & Genius: Nathan Myhrvold
On May 20, 2010 I caught a neat episode of Charlie Rose on PBS ...
Authentic Motivation
The matter of 'workplace' and 'personal' motivation comes up a...
Trust & Influence
"I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd...
Boomerangs & Balloons
In his bittersweet swan song, The Last Lecture, Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch shared countless...
Valuating Corporate Virtue?
I stumbled across an interesting article in a recent European issue of Fortune that...
Dilbert Levity
This morning I received a rather humorous email alleging, "A magazine recently ran a...
Squaring the Circle
We have to do a lot of this these days, don't we?
Squaring...
The Brevity of Life
A dear friend wrote to me earlier this week describing the tragic and unrelated deaths...