Marc Kirshbaum

It's simple: Make it a point to use your words and actions to build and create instead of tearing down and destroying. While simple, it is baffling to think that this seems…

In connection with last month’s 30th anniversary of the devastating and shocking explosion on take-off of the space shuttle, Challenger, I played for my thirteen year old daughter President Reagan’s address…

Creating alignment. Establishing priorities. Building an action plan. Executing. These terms represent the foundation of any well led organization on the path to success. Teams within organizations and businesses often leverage…

It was early one morning when I arrived at the office. The entire floor was quiet. I did what I often do as the leader of a business: I walked…

Almost 2,500 years ago, Plato recognized and articulated that our greatest weaknesses are merely a manifestation of our greatest strengths when used in excess or inappropriately by us as individuals,…

I am the king of lists. It started at a very young age as my father encouraged me to always “write it down.” It was such an engrained regimen as a…

Texts. E-Mails. Status updates. What are becoming the most common methods of communication in our business and personal lives that require “looking down” have allowed us to forget the importance,…

Admittedly, I didn’t take many science classes in school and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express to become a scientist or doctor overnight (for those who have seen…

Shakespeare’s character Dick the Butcher in Henry VI said, “The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.'' I was told a variation of this line the very first…

Several years ago, I heard the story of an engineer who was riding his bike to work one day when he happened to see a frog on the side of…