Mitch's Blog

Last week I gave a workshop on social media marketing to a very small group. It was interesting for many reasons, but one thing in particular kept coming up that was driving me nuts. One of the participants knew me, fairly well I guess, but obviously not well enough. Both before and during the presentation, [...]

One of the strange things about this blog is that I get a lot of comments from people, but they’re usually in an email instead of commenting on the blog itself. I’m not quite sure why, but I think many people are in business and are worried that someone they work with will see their [...]

I don’t like getting into people’s love lives. Sometimes when you’re coaching someone, you’re led that way and you just can’t avoid it completely. I always hope that whenever I do have to get into it that I offer some advice that helps without getting into it too much. I remember one time I was [...]

Over the past month or so I’ve been working my way through a book titled The Ethics of Star Trek. I usually read books very fast, but this one has so many concept involved that, well, I won’t say I’m struggling to get through it anymore, but it’s so detailed and compact that it’s become [...]

There has been a lot of talk going around ever since, while being interviewed at an event, the current CEO of Yahoo uttered some choice words at the reporter in her response. It’s been discussed and debated as to whether or not that was proper, with the split coming around 60% against her doing it. [...]

There’s a place my wife and I go to all the time for dinner. I love the food, and I love the general atmosphere. What I don’t like, rather who, is the guy at the cash register. I haven’t felt comfortable with him since the first time I went there. I’m good with everyone else, [...]

Today the general that was leading the American effort in Afghanistan submitted his resignation to the President. He did so because he made a fatal flaw, one that people with power who aren’t the overall leaders, the untouchables if you will, sometimes forget. That rule is that there is no freedom of speech when you [...]

I’ll never get used to this sort of thing, and I’m happy for it. One of my posts has made another leadership list, this time on a blog called Business Pundit, in an article titled 50 Tips To Make You A Better Leader. It’s not a ranked list, but the author has categorized the list. [...]

I was checking out a blog called The Practice of Leadership by a man named George Ambler. It was titled The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. On the post, he had the video that I’ve posted below, a presentation by Dan Pink, who’s written many books on the changing face of the working world. [...]

I was having an interesting conversation with someone a few days ago. We were talking about an issue he was having that, from my perspective, seemed to only have one real answer. Me being me, however, I threw out 3 possible scenarios of things that could be done, thinking that one of them was so [...]