Archive for October, 2011

Most of the time there’s a very tenuous relationship between managers and their employees. You’ll see some managers being overly friendly and some barely being personable. I hate the extremes of almost anything, and I certainly don’t like it when leadership is concerned. However, I can easily understand why most managers feel they shouldn’t get […]

A couple of days ago I went to a local networking meeting. I didn’t know most of the people in the room, but there was a lot of thought energy permeating the air. Most of us were talking about how much we liked living in the central New York area. But one of the laments […]

Next week I have the honor of giving a live presentation at the BizBuzz Social Media Conference here in the Syracuse area at the Holiday Inn Conference Center on Electronics Parkway; that’s for the local people, but y’all can check the link. The leader always sets the trail for others to follow I’m speaking on […]

In my last post on the topic of focus, I talked about making a list of points about focus, only to lose that list by doing something stupid on Excel. Turns out that what I’d done somehow was create a brand new spreadsheet which didn’t include anything; my original spreadsheet was just fine, with my […]

I was putting together my plans for writing this particular post. I had decided to write on the topic of focus. I pulled up Excel and started making a list of the things focus will help you do. It wasn’t a bad list from what I remember. I say that because I heard a noise. […]