Tenure Means Nothing, Results are Everything. During a recent coffee meeting with a friend, we’ll call her Laura, I was reminded of a very prevalent and frustrating situation that many organizations face. Laura was [...]
Hire Good People, Not Good Employees In a recent interview I conducted with Matt Jung, the founder of Comfort Research and BigJoe Products, he discussed his organization’s ethos on hiring. He said “We don’t want [...]
Stop Asking for things, Start Building them Soon after leaving 10 year long career as a business development professional in the corporate world, I found myself setting a new and exciting goal. I wanted to [...]
A Case Against Playing Devil’s Advocate: Why you need to Be a Voice of Support, NOT a Voice of Reason Have you ever received advice from someone that felt more like an attack? Has someone [...]
4 Ways to Wield Influence in Your Organization Everyone wants to wield influence in their organization. Influence is a fragile thing that has nothing to do with manipulation or being deceptive. Influence is all [...]
Evoking More Engagement at your Organization’s Next Event Everyone that contributes to the planning wants their event, tradeshow, symposium, conference, or meeting to be successful. We pour ourselves into creating an impactful experience for our [...]
Determination Always Beats Indignation It's easy to begin something new with determination. A new year, a new job, a new relationship are all opportunities to sprint headlong into something. However, when faced with challenges, [...]
Recently Idaho instituted a new law that makes going slow in the passing lane an offense that will earn you a ticket. After reading an article about how they are cracking down on people [...]
Focus on what you can change, forget the rest. Many years ago I had a realization while in a frenzy of worry. It was the end of November and the end of the year [...]
The Subtle Art of Actually Giving a F$@! As you are likely aware, the recent book by Mark Manson, The subtle Art of Not Giving A F### has been a huge success. Having become a [...]