Making a Value Choice
I returned home yesterday, after three weeks between Dubai, Singapore, Bangkok and London. We left London on a relatively balmy day and landed in New York on a dazzlingly sunny day, with what seemed...
View ArticleAlan From Dublin
I’m happy to be contributing to Omar’s blog, especially and appropriately since I’m writing from Dublin. On Sunday morning the limo driver told me it never snows in Dublin, and on Monday morning it...
View ArticleEighteen Hours Rich in Meditations
Last night I attended a Chinese New Year ‘feast’ that was well concieved and executed at Shun Lee West in New York. Alas the table was so tightly packed that it required several contortions per dish to...
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The Sharing of Pleasures
Last night my wife Leslie and I, along with two friends, attended one in a series of ‘Vintage Dinners’ organized by the Zagat guides — this one held at New York’s legendary French restaurant, Daniel....
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Omar’s Debut Podcast
With all the sound and fury in Washington about the stimulus package, here are some simple things that could be done to align us all to deliver the real results we need. And these work for companies as...
View ArticleA Time To Get To The Point
Consultants are prone to obfuscate. Around the world today, this is lethal to business success. Now more than ever is a time to get to the point — a point of value to your client needless to say....
View ArticleNew Languages and Nostalgia
My wife Leslie and I walked into a neighborhood coffee shop in New York, Juan Valdez. The coffee’s not bad, but you have to read a description of all the farmers they didn’t exploit to get it to you....
View ArticleNot A Bad Idea For Valentine’s Day
We caught one of the last performances of a play from playwright Jane Bodie, RIDE, brought over to the US from Australia. It chronicles some of the ironies and potential nihilism of contemporary...
View ArticleWhy Oh Why…?
On the MSNBC show, “Morning Joe”, Professor Jeffrey Sachs (author of THE END OF POVERTY and COMMON WEALTH) found himself in broad agreement with Conservative host Joe Scarborough (despite simple-minded...
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Living Well Indeed!
This week we attended another of the Zagat Vintage Dinners, this time at Del Posto. As before, menu and wine pairings are pasted below for fellow enthusiasts. The pictures you’ll see dotted through the...
View ArticleThe Wrong Fossil Fuel!
I ran into a senior leader in New York just before heading off to Dubai en route to Singapore where I am today as I write this. She explained that her boss told her to tell the employees in her...
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Reporting From Sydney
I’m in Sydney running the first Six Figures to Seven workshop, which will also run in March in Las Vegas. This is the first time I’ve “debuted” an offering outside of the U.S. (One of the participants...
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Crazy Flight
Here’s a vivid example of how NOT to deal with a bad situation (a horrific flight experience I had recently) and some ideas of what we should be doing instead no matter what business we’re in. © Omar...
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Lionizing A World Class Experience!
RAFFLES WINE FOOD AND ARTS EXPERIENCE About 10 years ago, while consulting for The Ritz-Carlton Millennia Singapore as it was being launched as the new flagship for that company, we were induced to...
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Queenstown, New Zealand
I’m here so speak at a meeting for my pal and member of my Million Dollar Club, Rob Nixon, who is hosting his coaching club members in this idyllic “Adventure Capital of the World.” My rooms, in the...
View ArticleFind a Way!
Recently in Singapore a client who had paid us an invoice for fees but had no money for logistics or a venue, worked with us to find a creative way to engage their team. This was a new team, and they...
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Dragons and Fragrances
I’m in Hong Kong, working with a client bringing together their China and Japan teams. We’re in Mongkok, a corner of Kowloon. “Mongkok” literally means ‘bustling corner’ and for years this was the...
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Things That Catch Your Eye
Hong Kong always impresses you with highly efficient professionalism. The Cantonese excel in functional excellence. Our otherwise sober hotel, Langham Place in Mongkok revealed its lighter side as I...
View ArticleWhere We’d Least Expect It
The ‘Purloined Letter’ phenomenon is a powerful one. We all tend to look for answers in abstruse analytics, often too far up or too far away, when many times, the answers are literally right under our...
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Absurdities Abound
Here are some absurdities from the road and from the headlines here in the US — all suggesting that we are at our most absurd when we say things we don’t mean, do things that don’t make a positive...
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