Mitch's Blog

Advice is a strange thing. All of us will look at someone else, see that they might be messing up in some fashion, and immediately want to tell them what we believe they should be doing. Sometimes, they might not be doing anything wrong, just not doing it the [...]

Two years ago I wrote a post called Check The Ceiling For Spiders, after a spider dropped in front of my wife’s face one evening while she was sitting in my office talking to me. At the time I talked about making sure you check things to protect your business [...]

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 [...]

If you read this blog often enough, you know that I really subscribe to 3 moral positions: loyalty, trustworthiness, and honesty. I really believe that’s how you need to be with your friends, with your co-workers, and as much as possible with everyone else you meet throughout your life. [...]

There are two types of people who help others in the world. One are people who help because it makes them feel good. The other are people who are looking to get something out of it.
I think I have one of those faces that makes people think I need [...]

On Tuesday afternoon I was at a meeting of an organization whose board I sit on. In this particular instance, I also hold an official position; no, I don’t get paid for it.
The conversation turned to one that’s fairly common in most companies, but it was a crucial discussion about [...]

If you saw my post a few days ago explaining where I’d been because of my blog problems, then you can imagine that, though I got it working, something had to have messed up. In this case, it was something I thought was relatively minor, something I did that it [...]

I have lots of people in my life who view me differently, it seems. There’s the group that views me as a fun-loving, loves to laugh kind of guy. Then there’s the group that views me as sort of a stuffy, afraid to make fun of himself kind of [...]

Sometimes the world is an ironic place. Case in point, the video below originated with a company with a website called Death of Leadership. It’s kind of funny in a way, making a mockery of the types of leadership we hear about in businesses all the time. It [...]

I’m sitting here hurting all over my body right now. It’s the result of the first true snowfall of the year, and my going outside and shoveling the driveway. Usually we hire someone to do it for us, but we weren’t pleased with who we had last year and [...]