Ramblings From a Glass Half Full
Remember those yellow legal note pads? They used to be my constant companions earlier in my career, before PCs, PDAs, laptops, and smart phones. (Yes, there was actually a time like that, as strange as it may seem now. And yes, that officially qualifies me as a dinosaur.) I would always be making “to do” lists on …
We just had to do it. Another version of SOBCon, that is. Liz Strauss and I have been talking for over a year now about importing the SOBCon Chicago magic to another town, and it has now become a reality. For on September 17 and 18, 2010, we will be presenting……… SOBCon Colorado: Strategy and Focus At the Renaissance Boulder …
Why do you want to be a leader? That’s a question that needs to be answered by any person taking on that role, or planning to. The motivational forces that pull us toward leadership do not disappear after the role is secured – in fact, our motivations are as important as any action we take when …
Remember the character “Booger” in “Revenge of the Nerds”? I loved that guy. Mainly because the actor playing him, Curtis Armstrong, also played a memorable character in one of my favorite movies, “Risky Business”. In that movie, Booger (a quick aside here – yes, I know, the character’s name was actually “Miles”, but I will never …
Leaders are constantly processing information, and in the course of doing that are called upon to make decisions based on that information. Or not make them. That’s where our knees come in. Sometimes the nature of this information, its source, or the manner in which it was delivered, puts some kind of strange electric charge into the knee, …
I remember the first time I felt it. It was in 8th grade, when a friend of mine put a certain 45 on his turntable. I felt a jolt of energy and exhilaration unlike anything I had experienced before. It was a rock and roll anthem – in this case, it was Elton John’s “Saturday Night’s Alright …
With summer approaching it’s time for a mid-year leadership “Check-Up”. Back in January we completed a New Year’s “checklist” of 10 things we needed to do to make it a great year. Let’s see how we’re doing against that list, with nearly six months of activity behind us. Take Stock of the Victories – We started the New …
About 4 years ago, I backed my car into our garage door. I had “forgotten” to open it before I started the car and put it in reverse. I had been sucked in by the “Under Toad”. Here’s how I had described this beast back then: In one of my favorite novels, “The World …
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