The Ideas Behind My Books
My books may begin in different places, but they tend to lead toward the same questions: How do we better understand ourselves, connect with other people, and make more thoughtful choices about the lives we lead?
That perspective comes from experience. I spent much of my working life leading organizations, building businesses, managing people, and watching how communication, relationships, judgment, and human behavior affected what happened next. Later, my work helping professionals think about careers and professional relationships gave me another view of many of the same questions.
Over time, those experiences became books.
My earlier books grew largely from my professional experience, exploring people, relationships, communication, and the language we use. More recent books turn inward, toward identity, self-awareness, meaning, and the experiences that shape who we become.
The subjects are different, but the books are connected by the same underlying belief: our lives are shaped by how we understand ourselves, how we understand other people, and what we do with the experiences we accumulate along the way.
I don't write from the perspective of having all the answers. I write from a lifetime of experience, observation, mistakes, changes in direction, and continued reflection.
At this point in my life, I’m less interested in telling people what they should do and more interested in asking questions that might help them see something differently.
Perhaps that is the connection running through all of my books: understanding where we've been, paying closer attention to where we are, and becoming more intentional about where we go next.
