How to find more time in your day happens to be one of the most sought-after pieces of advice people are searching for every day. In our time-pressed world, there’s little to no time to do our work, let alone create a side business, write an ebook, or just plain spending more time with our [...]
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I just came across an article about why being a CEO should come with a health warning. It’s an interesting premise and one we know intuitively, i.e., working at such a high-level is stressful and difficult, despite the great pay. There was a book quoted in the article, The Secrets of CEOs, and a link [...]
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I dropped my taxes off at my tax guy this morning. We chatted for a while about life and the normal small talk, and then we talked about how he was going to e-file my taxes for me. He mentioned that because of e-filing and storing things electronically, now there’s only one copy of the [...]
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Letting go of the past and moving on seems to be a difficult thing for people. Letting go and moving forward is a decision you’re going to have to make. Dwelling on the past and holding onto a past relationship or anything for that matter is the easy thing to do, in the short-term.
I was [...]
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“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.” – Ernest Hemingway
I came across this quote from Hemingway and chuckled. It’s great advice [...]
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If I had more room in the title, I would have called this post:
Positive Deviants and the Role They Can Play in Creating Real Change in Your Organization and Other People’s Lives
I’m reading SWITCH by the Heath Brothers and I came across a story they excerpted into a Fast Company article a few months back. [...]
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The founders of 37Signals have a new book that was released today. It’s called REWORK and I came across it on some blog post or another. The book has a bunch of short essays and the premise is that these founders are going to share with you the tips on increasing productivity and building a [...]
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This is a book review of Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich. I’ll refer to the book as BS by BE throughout the post.
I’ll start out by saying that I should have returned BS by BE to the library after a few pages, but I couldn’t put [...]
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It turns out that success is coming from the atypical organizations, the ones that can get back to embracing irreplaceable people, the linchpins, the ones that make a difference. Anything else can be replicated cheaper by someone else.
Most big companies have systems, policies, training, procedures and inter-changeable parts that make them able to lose key [...]
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Between Redbox and Netflix, Blockbuster is getting squeezed…HARD. So instead of figuring out a way to fight it, they’re going to squeeze the one group that they shouldn’t – their customers. Talk about a dumb move. Guess they didn’t really want to figure out a way to stay competitive. Instead, they’re doing the unthinkable…
Thanks to a dismal [...]
