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Mar, 16 2011

Can the Weatherman Teach You About Goals

By |2011-03-16T21:41:55+00:00March 16th, 2011|Categories: Miscellaneous|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Can the Weatherman Teach You About Goals

For a few years, I anchored the weather segment on the local news. It was interesting learning about things like cold fronts, high pressure, and the jetstream. While gathering the [...]

Mar, 14 2011

The Moped Curse & Your Business

By |2011-03-14T14:31:35+00:00March 14th, 2011|Categories: Miscellaneous|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on The Moped Curse & Your Business

Does your company spend too much time celebrating past achievements? Does this distract from changes that need to be made now? When I went to Junior High, I had to [...]

Mar, 9 2011

Do You Dream of Meetings

By |2011-03-09T21:54:24+00:00March 9th, 2011|Categories: Miscellaneous|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Do You Dream of Meetings

Most professionals dream of better hair, a slimmer waist, and shorter meetings. At best you'll probably only be able to achieve one of these goals this year. As I'm not [...]

Mar, 7 2011

Stop Selling Encyclopedias

By |2011-03-07T13:07:00+00:00March 7th, 2011|Categories: Miscellaneous|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Stop Selling Encyclopedias

Remember when encyclopedias used to be sold door to door? Maybe you don't because the big sets of books have long been replaced by the Internet as a source of [...]

Mar, 3 2011

Can Good Come From a Bad Grade

By |2011-03-03T00:00:00+00:00March 3rd, 2011|Categories: Miscellaneous|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Can Good Come From a Bad Grade

Sometimes I'm asked if I'm good at math. I reply that the last math problem I worried about was whether a 69.8% would round up to a "C." It did [...]

Feb, 28 2011

What Oscar Speeches Can Teach You About Speaking

By |2011-02-28T17:00:57+00:00February 28th, 2011|Categories: Miscellaneous|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on What Oscar Speeches Can Teach You About Speaking

Before you speak at your next meeting, you may want to think about the acceptance speeches you hear at the Academy Awards. If you watched the telecast, how much of [...]

Feb, 24 2011

What The Black Swan Knows…

By |2011-02-24T17:29:30+00:00February 24th, 2011|Categories: Miscellaneous|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on What The Black Swan Knows…

The movie Black Swan takes you into the world of professional ballet. As someone who was fortunate to be a part of a ballet company (no dancing though), I thought [...]

Feb, 14 2011

Success, Failure & Computers

By |2011-02-14T16:44:47+00:00February 14th, 2011|Categories: Miscellaneous|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Success, Failure & Computers

Sometimes there is very little that separates success and failure. Often it's just one thing. When it comes to computers, they can give us daily lessons in dealing with our [...]

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