Author: David Deck

Musical composers are the one’s who most typically will refer to their type of work as their opus… their "labor of love” and/or a "work of art”.  In an effort to understand the depth of this so called “labor” and "work”, I discovered this little, but very telling, nugget… Tuning a piano requires making minute … Continue reading Life is but a song…

I recently met a couple of really good dudes who are full of passion and knowledge, but clarity... not so much.  Their energy is infectious, they’re well read, well written and very capable.  Yet what they are saying and doing just isn’t connecting with people.  When pressed, I noticed they both have a hard time … Continue reading The point of it all

Today I spent some time in the playbook with one of my clients who has a bad case of passive empathy.  In other words, he cares but “not that really” as my 7 year old would say.  If you’re a leader of anything, this is not so good.  So we went through an exercise that challenged … Continue reading EQ First

At BTL, we write for 3 reasons: To slow down To influence ourself To put ourself on the hook I’ve been personally writing (BTL style) since 2008 when I met Chet (a.k.a. Chicker, to me) and he started building into me as a young, dumb, passionate fool.  Chicker pushed me to write and over time, … Continue reading Why we write, why I don’t want to write, and why I’m writing anyway