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A few weeks ago I made a sales call of sorts; yes, I hate doing it, but I do call on occasion. I called a guy that I thought might have at least heard my name in the past since he was working at a hospital that was relatively close to one I’d worked at, [...]
“Every region needs its heroes. These folks take role modeling to an extreme; they have names like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Steve Case, Anita Roddick, and Oprah Winfrey. Kids need heroes, in that they can say, ‘When I grow up, I am going to be the next Steve Jobs.” Guy Kawasaki, Reality Check [...]
Everyone knows this common phrase: “There are two sides to every story”. I doubt that most of us would disagree with that statement. However, in thinking about it, just because it’s true doesn’t mean it’s fully accurate. For instance, there’s this horrible news story about this incident in Texas where an 11-year old girl was [...]
Back in August I wrote a post asking people what their ethics were. It didn’t get a lot of attention, but that’s okay; sometimes getting people to actually think about their ethics is a tough sell, almost like talking about diversity. An interesting conversation and then blog post by someone else has come up talking [...]
A few weeks ago I decided to take someone up on an offer of helping me in figuring out how to market myself. During the second visit, we began a conversation that made me do some serious thinking on the back end. We were talking about things I could and couldn’t do, and I mentioned [...]
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 [...]
Sunday night, after the Super Bowl, a show came on called Undercover Boss. I don’t usually watch these types of shows, but for some reason I was intrigued enough by the premise that I decided to check it out. The President and COO of Waste Management, Lawrence O’Donnell, III, decided to undertake an interesting challenge. [...]
