Lee was a great athlete who played three sports in high school. The sport he was best at was probably baseball. When he graduated, the Brooklyn Dodgers offered him a signing bonus. He wanted to play for them. His father said no. Lee’s father, Alessandro, came to the United States at age 15 with a 2nd grade education  »  Read More

Avoid “Paralysis by Analysis” with the 70 Percent Solution. It’s based on the idea that an imperfect plan, vigorously executed today is usually better than that perfect or nearly perfect plan implemented out there in the future. When you think you’ve got 70 percent of the information you need  »  Read More

Don’t just trust your head and logical analysis. Don’t just trust your gut feelings and instinct either. Use each to check the other. Your gut is your emotional sense, your instinct. It knows things your head does not. It spots trouble early. Listen to it. Your head is the logical, disciplined part of you. It  »  Read More

One of the big problems when we seek to learn the lessons of history is that we know how things turned out. That leads to what psychologists call “hindsight bias,” the tendency to think that what happened was inevitable or predictable. That’s almost never true. Consider Dwight Eisenhower in the hours leading up to D  »  Read More