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 [...]

There’s a funny commercial on TV these days. It’s a Miller Lite commercial, where a guy and his girlfriend are sitting in a bar. He’s got an arm around her and his other hand is wrapped around his beer.
She asks him if she and his dog were about to [...]

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 [...]

The Wednesday before the Super Bowl, I was watching an episode of Man Vs. Food on the Travel Channel. It’s a show where this guy travels around the country sampling the best that different eateries have to offer, but each week he takes on an eating challenge from a specific [...]

I say often that I like being correct. And I’m not afraid to argue my points when I know I’m correct. But every once in awhile, I figure that it’s time to leave an argument or discussion alone because neither side is going to budge, and the last thing [...]

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 [...]

A few days ago I asked Can You Overcome Interruptions. This time, I’m asking you how well you’re able to hit deadlines.
In all of our lives, there are times when we’re tasked with finishing something by a certain time. When we were kids it was making sure our homework [...]

This weekend, there was an outrage on Twitter concerning a columnist named Amy Dickerson. She writes an advice column for the Chicago Tribune which is syndicated across the country. In one of her columns, she responded to a question from a young woman at a college who, based on [...]

Last night I was talking to another health care consulting friend of mine who just ended a long assignment. She was asking how things were on the health care front, and I told her things were a bit slow, but probably ready to start warming up again.
We started talking about [...]