Do you find yourself tempted by those self-assessments on the internet? The ones that encourage you to take inventory of your life, your strengths, what’s holding you back, and promise to provide direction? I am inevitably suckered in by these assessments. I faithfully copy them into Word, and spend hours completing them, getting more and …
The day after Christmas means, for many people, huge savings. For retailers, it means big sales, too, but they are sad sales, for the most part, a reflection of poor decisions and the impact of online retailing. There’s no big name for the after-Christmas sale, like there is for Black Friday, or like the Brits …
People have often accused me of being an optimist, as if “accusing” were the right thing to do when confronted with an optimist. I remember one executive who, when I shared with her my vision for transforming my team of data entry “pair of hands” workers into true store communicators, looked at me with great …
For some reason when I woke up this morning, I was thinking of the King of Rohan. For those of you only familiar with the movie of The Lord of the Rings, cast your minds back to the scene where Gandalf enters a darkened hall and finds a King huddled on his throne, weighed down …
Do you ever get tongue tied? When I was in 6th Grade, our history teacher who was from the exotic realm of New Jersey (so far from sunny Tucson), decided to teach us about the Constitutional Congress (yes, it was 1976) by having us act out a play that he may have written to teach …
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