Are you born to fight? Maybe – you are born to hunt. As men, we are the hunters of the hunter-gathers. We are born to provide and protect. If need be, we will fight. It is in that fight we see the worst and best of men. We see what men will do in the [...]
Halla Tomasdottir in her TED talk speaks about how we need to do emotional due diligence. “It is people who make money, not Excel spreadsheets…” As the executive chairman and co-founder of Audur Capital she led this Icelandic investment company firm through Iceland’s economic collapse without losing money. The company’s orientation is – “a financial [...]
Guest post by Dmitri Bilgere So often relationship problems seem to come down to the question, Who’s the jerk here? I’m not saying relationships SHOULD come down to that. But often they do. People assemble evidence about how their partner is being a jerk. They gather supporters to back up their point of view. And [...]
As men we need a purpose. Retired cosmetics executive Mark Goldsmith found his through helping some 1,500 young men incarcerated at Rikers Prison in N.Y.C. NPR did a story on how Goldsmith travels to Rikers to teach men how to not return. These not only don’t know how to go to a job interview, they [...]
Two members of my group, Sandpoint Men’s Group are part of Ride Across America – a bike ride across the country. Wayne Pignolet, an avid rider was one of the organizers rides for Team Laughing Dog. Wayne just celebrated his four year anniversary as a group member. David Barth, another group member, is on the [...]
Hanna Rosin, the author of the Atlantic Magazine article, The End of Men, speaks articulately in her TED talk about what we all are feeling – the shift in our roles as men and women. As she points out, this shift does not originate in the personal or political. It is economic. The ‘white men’ [...]
Matt Carmichael in his Ad Age article interviews Tammy Erickson, the writer of a trilogy of books about generations in the workplace. The most recent is What’s Next, Gen X? Matt ends the interview with Tammy’s description of how the U.S. Army understands the generations. One example I often use in speeches is the ads [...]
Are you married? Well, according to a new study you should be; “Men tend to behave better when they’re married – both because marriage likely helps improve their behavior, and nicer men are more likely to be married in the first place…” With this, and the fact that married men live longer, reason would tell [...]
