Back in March 2008 I wrote a short little post called Just Six Words. The basic idea was that you had six short categories and you only got to write six words in response to each category. The original idea came from a guy named Kevin Eikenberry, and I link to his post from the […]
Last weekend I watched the Vince Lombardi biography on HBO and thought it was very nicely done. However, I was paying attention to how he led people as well as what kind of football coach he was, and I was intrigued. I was intrigued because in a way he was like me as a leader […]
I’m going to tell you a truth. I always thought being in management was a pretty easy job. Sure, there were pressures like anything else one does, but for whatever reason I don’t think I felt any pressure 95% of the time I was in a leadership position. That other 5% is pretty interesting, though. […]
I was somewhere with my wife where she had to sign a whole lot of papers. It was almost worse than buying a house. There were also tons of other paper and stickers and such that the person had to deal with. It was really weird, and I thought it was overkill. I asked the […]
We’ve had a lot of snow in the Syracuse area over the past week, and there’s a lot more coming, it seems. Because I don’t own a snow blower and didn’t sign up for snow removal services, this means I’ve been outside a lot shoveling snow out of the driveway. It’s a tough proposition sometimes, […]

