Why So Negative? Can’t You Be Positive?
A product or service exists to solve a problem. That’s a negative. Can you still sell a product if there’s no problem to solve?
Mid-Life Crisis Explained
Mid-life crisis is the result of so many having run out the maps others laid before us…covering the first 35-40 years of American Male life. Increasingly, I suspect the problem is not so tied to just ‘males’ nor Americans, either.
Brewing 2015’s Tea Leaves Makes ’16 a Stiff Brew
In early December, many colleagues were focused on the end of the year, end of the quarter. There was angst because many customers seemed to be sitting on their hands, not spending end of year budget money, no longer returning calls.
The key may be as simple as looking at a larger picture, the global economy. Reading the tea leaves of global economic winds for a while, I decided to pen my own thoughts as to why I believe 2016 will be a bigger challenge than 2015.
In Honor of Memorial Day
In honor of those who have served. In honor of those who will. In honor of those who have given the utmost. Your service to keeping our nation free and enduring is greatly appreciated.
What I’ve Read Lately: Brief
Less is more. Never has that been more true than in today’s world. The rate of change, demands for collaboration, social media’s ambient noise, all lay claims on our time. And, we haven’t even mentioned our family, friends, and folks in our ‘physical’ lives.
As a result, our attention spans seems to be ever-shorter. It’s a challenge, taking real effort at times to stay focused, to stay on-task. There are days I wonder whether I’m a grown adult suffering from an attention deficit disorder. With more of us expected to ‘collaborate’ at work, to perform in ‘matrixed’ environments, attention spans are under severe pressure.