Before your next project launches what sort of pre-flight checklist to you review to ensure its success? It would be a dangerous a thing for an airplane to take off without verifying technical, engineering, personnel, and other elements vital to its successful take-off and safe landing. To ignore the need for a pre-launch checklist is […]
Your mane priority …er… MAIN priority might be to move ahead in your personal life and/or your career, but you’ll never make any forward progress if you’re lying around all the time. Disagree? You’re just lion (…er… lying…) to yourself Newton’s First Law of Motion states that a body at rest tends to stay at […]
Isn’t it frustrating when you present the details of a project or an agreement (in person or in writing) in a well thought out and (dare I say) elegant manner, only to have the client or vendor or co-worker respond with questions and assumptions that fly completely in the face of everything you just explained?? […]
You arrange yourself to sit tight in the saddle, wrap your fist with a knotted rope to secure your grasp, and then you give the ready sign and the gates are thrown open — the beast bolts out of the stall and into the open arena where you see the seats in the stands crowded […]
I just returned from a local event called a “Tiki Tour” here in Columbus, Ohio. It’s a fun event where a small group of people get to enjoy a collection of Tiki-inspired craft cocktails created by our host Doug Winship. This is the second Tiki Tour event I’ve attended, and one of my favorite aspects […]
There are things you know that you know, and things you know that you don’t know… but there are also a metric ton of things you don’t know that you don’t know. As I’ve mentioned before, we are all ignorant about something (and that’s not an insult, it’s just a fact that we can’t know […]
Everyone has to deal with a few pricks now and then, but it’s how you handle those thorny situations when they arise that matters. Things people say or do can get under your skin. It can be abrasive. It can be irritating. But it can be overcome. Just like a skin rash or allergic reaction, […]