So you've been knocked down...now what? In golf, as in life, you will suffer defeat. There will be times when you choke, succumb to pressure, or just lose it in the furnace that is a stressful and...
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We Would Literally Astonish Ourselves | Why we Live Unastonished Lives
Most people are really lazy. Myself included. Interestingly enough, it took a sign that I saw while shopping for a Mother's Day gift last month to convince me of that. The sign is true. If we...
Overworked and Proud of It: Workload as Status Symbol
Is your workload a status symbol? A recent Harvard Business Review article entitled, Why Men Work So Many Hours, had a passage that totally floored me: How do the elite signal to each other how...
Of Risk and the Entrepreneur
What is risk? That question was posed by a professor to sixty MBA students who were executives of public corporations. I was reviewing my notes from the book, The Millionaire Next Door this week, and transferring them to digital format. My copy of the book is so old, I think Gutenberg himself printed it. E-readers were a […]
Autopsy of a Failed Business
Can business success lead to business failure? Yes. I’ve allowed it to happen. Five years removed from my time at one business, I had time to do an autopsy. Here is what I learned. A few months ago, Chris LoCurto posted about what he calls the clarity paradox. The question he asked is: Why don’t successful people […]
How NOT to Network on LinkedIn
A warm network is critical in today's economy. We live in a connected world, dependent upon relationships. I have written quite a bit about networking before and include links to those posts at the...