I hear a lot of people complaining that they haven’t reached the heights they feel that they deserve. They don’t have the title they want, they’re not getting paid what they want, they don’t have the social partner that they want. They want to level-up, but they don’t want to pony-up what it takes to […]
This is an Idea. It is a single pithy phrase that ricochets around the inside of your head for weeks. It is a single slide in the midst of a hundred deck PowerPoint presentation that compelled you to quickly pull out your phone and snap a photo of it before the speaker could advance to […]
Joan Jett may not give a damn about her bad reputation, but you better. With so many online resources like search engines, business rating sites, and social media platforms to reference prior to ever meeting someone face-to-face, your reputation enters the room long time before your physical body actually does. One bad review that tarnishes […]
There is a term in architecture called a Folly which refers to a building that is primarily constructed to decorative, but through its appearance suggest some other purpose. For instance, there is a folly in Dunmore Scotland designed to be a botanical hot house whose purpose is to grow fruits, vegetables, and ornamental plants requiring […]
You may have noticed I’m trying something new this year — publishing a new article every. single. day. I’m not new to blogging. I started publicly posting my thoughts and ideas around 20 years ago when a “blog” was more commonly referred to as a “web log”. The first couple years of those posts have […]
Some organizations seem to forget the value potential of a ringing phone. Especially on the days it’s ringing off the hook. The more a phone rings from caller after caller with little or no breaks between those calls, the more of an intrusion some companies (or at least some of their employees) perceive a ringing […]
Even though you can start new projects and develop new habits any time during the year, January has sort of become the de facto National Holiday for New Beginnings. It’s as if during all 365 days of the previous year you were using an Etch A Sketch to record every single thing you did and […]