Archive for September, 2008
Coaching question for you
I’ve been seeing a fair amount of material lately on executive and personal coaching. I have never used a coach, although like most of you I imagine, I’ve been one from time to time. I’m curious as to whether this is a topic you are interested in. By leaving a comment, please tell me: Whether [...]
Too good to pass up
Yes, this is intended to be a postive, growth-oriented blog. It really is. So fresh on the heals of that post on Cadillac’s (I think) mis-leading commercial about their hybrid Escalade, I feel a little sheepish posting a follow-up that is equally as sarcastic. But this one truly is too good to pass up. Please take [...]
Forgive me…
…but I need to get a small rant off my chest. I was watching television a bit last night when a Cadillac ad came on. You know the ones, it’s dark, lights are flashing by, a powerful looking business man/woman is driving a Cadillac and you’re just waiting for them to put the hammer down [...]
Has the Age of Mediocrity arrived?
One of my information sources (recommended by reader Lauren) is Harvard Business Publishing’s Management Tip of the Day. (Go here, then look for the Management Tip of the Day in the right “Subscribe Options” area.) A couple days ago the title of the article was Do Something Remarkable for Customers. It’s actually a cool little [...]
THIS is why I love the Internet…
No one raised their hand to educate me on Marshall Goldsmith so I headed over to Google. Typing in “who is Marshall Goldsmith” gave me 356,000 little raised hands. The first few links looked like book links and a link to his blog (which doesn’t have an About page). But there around the 5th or [...]
What motivates you?
I had an early morning meeting with an entrepreneur last week. He’s located in an area that historically has a lot of traffic congestion to begin with, not to mention the large construction project that began on the interchange there about six months ago. I hate to be late to meetings, so I left with [...]
A Personal Branding primer
I’ve mentioned the topic of Personal Branding a few times before, but a recent post (along with a free download) on Chris Brogan’s blog got me inspired to write a primer describing my views of this concept. I’ve been hearing the term more and more, maybe you have too, so I’ve been not only giving it some thought, [...]
3 types of personal change
“Growth is change”. This seems fairly self-evident. Growth, by it’s very nature, is change. As we talk about change on this blog, we are concerning ourselves with change associated with personal growth in pursuit of personal excellence. Therefore even though you could argue the opposite statement is also true “Change is growth”, not all growth [...]
Please pardon that small interruption…
If you tried to read an article by clicking on it under the “Recent Posts” sidebar, or the “Read more…” link within a post on the home page the last few days, you probably received a page with just the name of the post but with no text. Let’s file this one under IT mistakes. [...]
Progress?
A friend of mine, Mark Pinto, is an example of a person whose destiny was probably foretold from the day he was born. So visual and creative he can’t eat lunch with you without doodling on the napkin, Mark runs a successful consulting business providing “graphic facilitation” to clients, helping them with issues ranging from [...]
