Earlier today I was reading a news story about a protest that went on in Mexico over the weekend. The protest was for peace, but it had a strange overtone. That overtone was the overwhelming support of the people for a drug lord that had been killed in a confrontation with police on Thursday. People […]

A couple of months ago I was at my consultant’s group meeting and I brought up a question I’d always had issue with. I’m an independent consultant. In my marketing materials, I often vacillate between using “I” or “we”. Most sales studies you do state using “we” without telling you why, and I felt it […]

Two Saturdays ago one of my friends came into town, and we stupidly decided to meet at Carousel Mall, which is a huge mall in the area. The place was packed as it was the Saturday after Black Friday. Normally if my wife and I find ourselves in a crowd of people we have a […]

At the last regular job I had, I think I can easily say that the last year and a half I was there was pretty stressful. I’m not going to go into a lot of details lamenting how unfair things were or how I felt put upon. Instead, I’m going to jump directly to one […]

There’s an interesting misconception that I see occurring all the time. I try to warn people against it, but no one ever really listens, and then on the back end I see people with hurt feelings and confusion. by Melissa via Flickr I’m talking about people you work with and determine that they’re your friends. […]