Archive for April, 2009

Early this morning I was informed that my uncle, Morris Mitchell, had passed away at the age of 77. As you can tell from the picture, this was my dad’s identical twin brother, though, from the age of 7, I could always tell them apart. It’s funny how these things go. Though they were twins, […]

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Every once in awhile, we all need a boost to get ourselves back into the proper, peaceful place. Today, my wife and I were having a conversation about how, well, “blah” we’ve been feeling lately. So she came up with the idea of each of us creating a Gratitude List. The basic premise is that […]

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Last night I went to a presentation at the Syracuse Technology Garden for the Talking Business series, courtesy of the eNitiative project. The speaker for the event was Leslie Rose MacDonald, president of Pathfinders CTS, Inc, and a friend of mine. I find these series of presentations somewhat uplifting when I have the opportunity to […]

First, the latest TTM Consulting Newsletter, Educate Employees Consistently, is now available. The latest newsletter is my 133rd missive since 2003. I still continue to get new subscribers, and one of the things they miss is getting access to newsletters from earlier in the game. I’ve been thinking about that, and wondering what might be […]

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You never know where you’re going to get a leadership lesson from, and it’s not always from something good. In this case, I got an interesting leadership lesson, or story, from a two part story on the Dr. Phil Show. And I didn’t get it from Dr. Phil. This particular story involved a large family […]

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