Just in Time – Destressing the holidays
One of the “rules” I always read relevant to professional blogging is to subscribe to lots of blogs that stretch you in different directions, or you just find interesting. I follow that rule, and one of the blogs I follow is called Simple Mom. Her blog’s tagline (I assume “her”, but these days who knows) [...]
Own your room
If you are not reading Chris Guillebeau’s blog The Art of Nonconformity, you should be. Chris regularly writes on three topics: life, work and travel. His view on work, and life, is that you don’t have to live your life the way people expect you to and if you don’t decide what you want to [...]
For your consideration…
Last week I wrote a little piece linking “being nice” to personal excellence. I also made a (very) short pitch that the relationship was not only more than casual, but implied there were direct links to superior performance possible with this simple attitude adjustment. I purposely kept the article high on personal observation and low [...]
A Strong Foundation for Personal Excellence
(By the way – this one works for Leadership too!) We’ve been talking almost exclusively lately on entrepreneurial topics, and in fact, I’ve got the updated Entrepreneurial Qualities survey just about ready to go. Before we dive headlong back into a new survey with it’s results and commentary, I want to take a side trip [...]
The real Santa Claus
“DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, ‘If you see it in THE SUN it’s so. Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?” “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” is the famous reply we all know by heart, [...]
7 steps to stop team finger-pointing
Another busy weekend and I didn’t get to the article I wanted to write for today. However, this little gem just came through from Harvard Business Publishing. The article, written by Marshall Goldsmith, uses the current economic crisis to launch a discussion on how to get teams focused on moving forward versus finger pointing. I’ll [...]
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 [...]
Hey – this is fun!
Slideshare is an online service through which you can upload and share PowerPoint, Open Office and PDF presentations. You can share the presentations publicly with no restrictions, and there are options for private sharing also. I set up an account a while back and really never did anything with it. Honestly, I still haven’t, but I [...]
