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Tonight I’m back home from a convention in Fort Lauderdale. I have to say that I didn’t quite remember some things from the last time I was there, about 3 years ago, and did remember some others. It’s always nice getting together with colleagues who do some of the same things you do, or used [...]
Along with this business blog, I have a secret personal blog where I can pretty much write anything I want. Me being me, I don’t stray far from who I really am, but I will address certain issues much differently than I will here. One of the things that happens when you participate on a [...]
One of the things consultant’s do is answer questions. Sometimes, we answer things a bit quicker than we should, but if we’re smart we’ll take some time, sometimes say “I don’t know, but I’ll get back to you”, and then move on. After all, consultant or not, we’re not supposed to know everything. Our problem [...]
The latest newsletter, A Manager’s Duty, is available now. Sometimes it seems as though people don’t understand this correlation between management and leadership. I talk about them as separate entities because they are, and yet, for someone to be good at one, they usually have to be good at the other. Doesn’t always happen; truthfully, [...]
This morning I went to a seminar called 7 Habits of 7 Highly Successful People, based on the Stephen Covey book Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Each of the speakers are, of course, very successful people in their own right. One of them is nationally known; the other is probably one of the most [...]
The anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers is upon us again, and yes, I’m still mad about it. You know, one of the premises that most people live off is the thing about wanting to get back at whoever has caused us harm in some fashion, whether it’s us personally, our family members, [...]
Something a little different here. Within the past year we’ve lost both James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti. I was a big fan of both, for different reasons. James Brown had lots of songs that meant nothing to me except that my parents liked the music until 1968, when he came out with “Say It Loud, [...]
