Howard A Fields (He/Him)

• Empathy
• self-motivation
• sense of humor
• integrity
• curiosity

• Tactful
• genuine
• open
• direct
• curious

Depends on the relationship and the context/

• Inauthenticity
• unreliability
• micromanagement
• close-mindedness
• disrespectfulness

Invited by producers of The Voice to audition for Season 2 in 2011.

• What's the best professional advice you ever received?

  1. "If you're the smartest person in the room, find another room." - Michael Dell 2. "I believe people are well-intentioned. But I have great respect for the corrosive influence of bias, systematic distortions of thought, the power of rationalization, the guises of self-interest, and the inevitability of unintended consequences." - Michael Crichton 3. "The comfortable assistant - the nice guy you go on fishing trips with - is a great pitfall. Instead, I looked for those sharp, scratchy, harsh, almost unpleasant guys who see and tell you about things as they really are. If you can get enough of them around you, and have patience enough to hear them out, there is no limit to where you can go." - Thomas J. Watson Jr. - Fortune Magazine 8/31/87 4. "As futurist Roy Amara pointed out to me three decades ago, there is a tendency to overestimate the short term and underestimate the long term." - Paul Saffo, HBR, July 2007