I’m going to acknowledge something here; I can be fairly sensitive at times. I get that way whenever certain speech patterns of mine, based on my background, come up for discussion. I will also admit that sometimes I should just shut my mouth and move on, but we all know that doesn’t always happen. An [...]
Last week one of my wife’s friends had her purse stolen, which of course means everything else was taken as well. The problem here is that no one ran up to her and took it from her. There was no struggle at all. It turns out she’d gone to the library and signed up on [...]
There are many cartoons that have human characters interacting with animals. This goes way back to the beginning of animation. Anyone who loves cartoons remembers those old Fleischer cartoons where not only animals talked but inanimate objects talked as well. There’s always an interesting way these humans interact with these characters. Sometimes there’s the initial [...]
A few days ago I finally had the opportunity to visit a blog by Terry Starbucker (what a name, right?) and an old post of his titled Leaders as Teachers: Two Things You Absolutely, Positively Must Do To Be Effective. It was a great post, although I had a minor problem with it, and I [...]
I’m one of those people who often changes how I say something depending on the crowd I’m in. I can be fairly casual with certain groups and highly proper with others. I also don’t tend to always speak with direct words. When I’m giving a presentation I do, but otherwise I tend to speak in [...]
My Keys To Leadership CDs is something I’ve written about before on my other blog, so you can check that post out if you’d like. Of course, the back story is so much more fun. The day I did the first seminar, which led to the first CD, I was at a crossroads in the [...]
In my last post on the topic of communications, I pretty much said that no one is obligated to have to talk to anyone else if they know there are divergent beliefs where no one will change their mind unless it’s work related and things have to get done. Today I’m going to add to [...]





