We’ve all had that moment. It could be a crisis at work or in a relationship, trouble with kids or finances. Is that the right moment to pick up the phone and ask for coaching? Maybe not.

When you use 3Lunches in a collaborative fashion, to offer ideas, to kick around business concepts or to share information, there is a slightly different dynamic. We call this Collaborative Coaching. Though we’ve developed suggested rules to guide this kind of exchange, we haven’t posted them in the Table Manners section of this site because of space. [...]

I had an entertaining interview recently with Rob McNealy on his blog radio show, Startup Story Radio. Rob’s passion is to use social media to evangelize about small businesses, and coaching entrepreneurs. I am grateful to Rob for giving me the the opportunity to talk about 3Lunches at length. Have a listen and share your [...]

The young writer who never called after our first lunch finally called. Our lunch had clarified something for her. As she thought about the difference between having a good idea and actually working on it, she focused on what role she wanted to play in the development of her book project. Turned out, she wanted [...]

While in London, I met a gentleman in research at Morgan Stanley and his reaction to 3Lunches was immediately enthusiastic. “It’s like short term mentoring!” he said. “I do it all the time, and I’ve always had a mentor throughout my career.”   As a former economics professor, he was completely used to the idea [...]