We'll Just Wait It Out In Our Garage
There was a time when sales department pep talks, employee rallies, motivating managerial sessions and corporate weekend getaways went something like this: Times may be hard now but just keep doing what you’re doing. Work hard, don’t give up; eventually things will get better. We will come out of this down time (together!) stronger in the end. In other words, demand for what we...
Read MoreAT&T's Broken Advertising
I get this “letter” from my friends down in Austin, Texas, every 2-3 weeks. It’s the same situation every time. I open the mailbox, and this genuine Hallmark letter falls gently into my eagerly awaiting hands. I think to myself, “Oh, it’s a friendly letter from a friend for something that I must have forgotten. Is it Christmas? My birthday? hmmm Whatever...
Read MoreJump On Your Plastic Bottle & Ride!
These guys go to school at one of the most environmentally focused schools in the country. The school focuses on and works to develop students who are entrepreneurially minded and who want to make an impact in specific areas of the environmental/ecological field. They work to invent new products which some day might be beneficial to us all, and they have a lot of fun. They just won the grand...
Read MoreExcuse Soup
I love great soup because it’s usually composed of a plethora of unique attributes which are commonly both healthy and tasty. “Excuse Soup”, on the other hand, is neither healthy nor tasty, but it is composed of a wide variety of ingredients, all of which taste a little different, but are shaved from the same pesky root, Excuse. Let’s face it, the time for making...
Read MoreThat's Rich
A good friend of mine once gave me this advice on getting rich (however you choose to define rich). Here’s the quick version: Build deep, meaningful, authentic relationships and help a lot of people. That’s it. Recognize a need (it’s an opportunity). Serve or meet that need. Provide a continual stream of service to perpetually meet that need in lots of peoples lives. Get...
Read MoreThe Leadership Moment
Hello! Welcome to the show and congratulations…you’re an instant leader! From a distance, it can appear that leadership is the nail, and a specific, one time event is the hammer which drives that nail into the wood, thus solidifying the nail in it’s rightful place as leader within a given community. It seems as though a single strike sets the leader in her position, holding...
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