As I write this I’m out of town working on a project that required me to visit the site for a couple of days. This happens from time to time, and I enjoy getting away for a short period of time because it allows me to see places that I otherwise would have had no […]

About 2 1/2 years ago I wrote a post titled What Other People Think that talked about my wife and things she was going through at the time. It also talked about her going to a Jack Canfield presentation and hearing some things he had to say that worked for her at the time. I’m […]

I have a program for my personal email that rotates funny taglines with every new email I send out. One of the taglines that comes up occasionally states this: “Not having fun at your job? That’s why they call it ‘work'”. There are a lot of people who believe that you’re not supposed to have […]

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. […]