Legacy Onward, Inc.

Case: One beautiful, sunny day, Edward, 73, sat back at his desk and assessed his life. He was living the dream—with one exception. He had several homes, a devoted second wife, and he spoke with his best friends every day. However, his business was failing. Over the past ten years, he had hired many of his best friends to lead various divisions of his manufacturing company, and Edward and his GMs were having a ball. The company manufactured sporting goods that he and his frie

What would you do in these two situations? A) Jennifer is not living up to expectations on this project. After a second try at delivering the results, she is late and the product is not useful. Would you: Empathize with her situation and show her how to do the work? Emphasize how important this work is and set specific, measurable expectations for success? Get someone else to do the work, and move her to a different role or terminate her? Get someone else to show her how t

Last year, my client joined her mother and her mother’s first cousins (all in their late 50s and 60s) for dinner. After listening to the teasing banter for a while, she realized that even in our 60s, we fall into patterns of behavior with our siblings that were formed in adolescence. Sure, the joking keeps us humble, but it can hurt just as much at 62 as it did at 12. She was secretly relieved to see it, because even though she and her three siblings are 20+ years their j