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 "Van Jones, a CNN contributor and former Barack Obama adviser, criticised the Harris campaign’s  focus on celebrity-filled rallies ." -  Telegraph , November 6, 2024 As the Democratic Party and its front-line strategists and fundraisers start to regroup, the blame game has kicked in.  What is obvious immediately is that ordinary people weren't influenced by the celebrity influencers. Those celebrities include former US progressive presidents such as Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. They couldn't connect with the 65% living paycheck to paycheck.  Or with the over-65 who are in high angst about running out of money before they run out of years on planet earth.  Were the Democrats caught up in only listening to the tenets of liberalism and out-of-touch with Main Street? Those celebrities embedded the campaign with a glam that had been unwelcome during these struggling scary times.  In my coaching I hear the people voice their loss of faith in the economic system of capit

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"I am well-liked." That is how just about every client starts out in our coaching session focused on why they didn't get the promotion. They rule out not-being-liked.  John F. Kennedy and Son It's no longer a secret that likability is a critical component of much of professional success. Maybe that's a result of Dan Goleman's 1995 book on how Emotional Intelligence usually overrides high IQ in helping us get what we want.  But we boomers may have realized that years earlier when we found out that our beloved John F. Kennedy had only a bit-above-average IQ. Although his son likely did not even have that much cognitive stuff going for him, he was America's Prince. Oh, Martha, Leon and Matt Not being liked tends not to end well.  Smartest in the room Martha Stewart might have gone to prison because she was so unlikable. Watch the Netflix documentary "Martha."  Would Friend of Jeffrey (Epstein) Leon Black not have taken it on the chin so brutally had

The cover of Fortune features GM CEO Mary Barra declaring, "We're not going to wait to be disrupted."  There's now a popular legal sector podcast "Law, Disrupted and on it Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp details, you got it, the disruption at that firm.  Netflix documentary "Martha" salutes Martha Stewart's brand disruption post-prison from diva to Everywoman who has suffered like the rest of us. Obviously disruption is not only a good thing. It's necessary.  Okay. But then why are we emotionally and spiritually time-traveling back to the 1950s? Axios reports some are rating life back then as better than the disrupted 21st century. So, the question is: Were we better off in the 1950s? On the surface the 1950s had been about the reassurance of Eisenhower conformity, wildly successful corporate military-style structures and the predictable lifestyle routines presented on TV such as Jim Anderson on "Father Knows Best" always not only arri

  During the first week of shooting "The Godfather," it was obvious to everyone on the set, including the director Francis Ford Coppola, that Al Pacino was not "getting" Michael Corleone. Although Pacino had already won major awards for acting, he couldn't wrap his identity around the boy-scout son of a gangster who would soon enough evolve into an organized-crime mastermind.  But, Pacino was able to override his earlier success and create a Michael. So much so that when "The Godfather" was released New Yorkers greeted Pacino on the street with "Hey, Michael." In his memoir  "Sonny Boy,"  Pacino recounts that challenge. The lesson he learned was not to accept roles even from iconic directors like Igmar Bergman that he knew he couldn't wrap his soul around. That challege dominates most professionals in this continually mutating era. They have to grow into new roles. Some are succeeding.  At the top of the list is the chair of law

  Amid the many achievement highs in Martha Stewart's life is the poignant reality that, well, she chose the wrong men for matters of the heart. Both her husband and then her long-time lover left her.  As the adage goes, women marry their fathers. Did even a totally professionally focused Stewart do just that: Nurture relationships with men like her father who essentially were not there for her? The husband womanized. The lover abruptly dumped her to marry someone else - and it was in bed. How raw.  That pain is palpable is the new Netflix documentary "Martha," directed by RJ Cutler. It is all the more brutal because, back in Stewart's day, being without a man constituted a social and professional disadvantage. According to the film, after the divorce, as a single woman, she felt she had to relocate from very closed system Westport, Connecticut for a life to the playlands of Long Island, New York.  So, what's the lesson in this? A big one.  In my intuitive coachin