This evening my daughter was sitting at the kitchen table, pencil in hand, confronting a full page of math homework. It was one of those...

“Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” -Leonard Cohen How’s that for a...

The other day I was re-reading Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I was looking for a metaphor for quality used...

This is a continuation of my last post where I was endeavoring to create a board game that allows players to simulate the trade-offs with...

I think often that people really appreciate the value of practice, however they find it really hard to actually do. I’m like that, I...

When you practice something in a disciplined way on occasion you may experience interruptions in your practice. I’m talking about the...

If you are going to be a leader within an organization, then you need to be able to clearly communicate a compelling vision. The...

I’ve been doing a fair amount of reading lately on the topic of deliberate practice. There is a sizable body of literature emerging with...

How do you go about memorizing a poem? When I do it, I usually break it down into individual lines or phrases and memorize each one piece...

In Daniel Coyle’s book The Talent Code, he talks about the different ways that people practice that ultimately enable them to achieve...

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the way that we practice our profession. It’s probably because my daughter recently started...