Mark Goulston Posted on Thursday, June 5, 2014 at 11:16AM 
People are often more impressed with excellence than what you are excellent at.
Even if you're not a basketball fan, you can be impressed by LeBron James or Kevin Durant. Even if you weren't a fan of Steve Jobs or of technology, you could be impressed with his visionary abilities.
Mark Goulston Posted on Friday, May 23, 2014 at 12:26PM 
Many of you are probably familiar with the "specialist's dilemma." If not, it will quickly become intuitively apparent what that means. It occurs when the more specialized you are and the more you speak in the jargon of that specialty that is comfortable to you but confounding to others, the more others will nod from the neck up (because it's often difficult for people who are prideful to admit they don't understand you), but then not fully “buy in” when you need their cooperation. That is because they have to fully trust and have confidence in you, when they don’t have trust or confidence in their understanding of what exactly you do.
Mark Goulston Posted on Sunday, May 4, 2014 at 2:18PM 
Former Memphis Grizzlies owner and Chicago based billionaire Michael Heisley died on Saturday, April 26 of complications from a stroke he suffered about a year ago.
Much has been said about Mike. I would like to share a personal remembrance.
Mark Goulston Posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 11:27AM 
How Well Do Your People Collaborate?
Conflicted Silos ------------- Collaborative Synergy
(Where is your company?)
Mark Goulston Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2014 at 9:29PM 
Watch as Mark's shares a nightmare he had about being a homeless schizophrenic to get the brief glimpse he had... and then say, "Hello in There."
Mark Goulston Posted on Friday, April 11, 2014 at 4:32PM 
Whether it’s the families of the passengers of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 or of those killed at Ft. Hood or of the children who died in a fiery bus crash near Sacramento, not to mention the families of soldiers continuing to die on active duty or by suicide back home, there is no shortage of grieving people left behind.
Mark Goulston Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 5:02PM 
Imagine that the top 10 % of a company are “Yaysayers,” the middle 80 % are “Maybesayers” and the bottom 10 % are “Naysayers.”
If the middle 80 % can be pulled in either direction, the last thing you want is for the “Naysayers” to suck them down into their negativity. What should you do?
Mark Goulston Posted on Saturday, April 5, 2014 at 6:38PM 
If you sacrifice being respected
in order to liked,
you won't be either.
And if you expect to be paid without asking
you won't be that either.
Sound familiar? I recently sat down with a fellow excess “freebie” giver.
;)