Greetings Leaders! Ok… I’m a bit ticked off. First for being taken in. Second – I’m so darn tired of people like the White family (if that’s their true name) taking advantage of others. Alright, I didn’t lose any money and certainly not a lot of time, but my credibility matters and more importantly, there […]
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Greetings Leaders… I found this short video of big wave surfer Dylan Longbottom taken by Brett Barley on StumbleUpon, and it reminded me of what it takes to capture perfection. To capture this moment on film took a lifetime. Sure, the video is only about a minute long, but think about it. To get to
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Greetings Leaders! I’ve been loosely following Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner project and thought I’d throw out a few high level lessons learned. Here are two interesting articles on the project, one written in June 2006 and the other in June 2009. Let me start off with the bottom line – the project is delayed over 2
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Greetings Leaders! Over the past few months, I witnessed a few situations that made me realize that people need some guidance on who should be promoted. Here are Ten Promotion Leadership Tips. Don’t promote someone just because they… have been there the longest (longevity means nothing) are technically competent (technical competency does not equate to
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Greetings Leaders! After checking popular search engine key words, it appears that people are looking to overcome discouragement. You can find another blog about this here. Today, I hope to provide perspective on overcoming defeat. Overcoming defeat is a state of mind. My question to you is… Can you be defeated? To overcome defeat, your
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Greetings Leaders! As I look at successful businesses, they hall have one thing in common, they know how to plan, and then execute the plan. Sounds simple doesn’t it? Yet if it were so simple, every business would thrive, which we know is just not the case. Assuming that most business owners know how to
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Greetings Leaders! On July 1st, a few more consultants were let go by my client. One of them. an IT Technician, had been with them for 12 years. He was well liked and competent and had a quirky but funny sense of humor. While he hadn’t been given specific notice that he was going to
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Greetings Leaders! I was doing some research on a company called TIBCO Software and came across the following article called, The Big Deal: Tibco. The article recounts how the owner, Vivek Ranadivé, got a $25 million deal as a start up technology company, with Solomon Brothers. After making the final cut during a bidding process,
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Greetings Leaders! I don’t listen to Country music very often but did catch “Sounds Like Life to Me” by Darryl Worley on the radio this afternoon and it made me smile. The message is simple, we all have problems. Taxes, bills, broken down cars, kids running around, parents getting older. But, that is just life
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Greetings Leaders! Following my customary morning routine, I am sitting at a Starbucks catching up on the financial markets, blogging and reflecting. Being a creature of habit, there are three coffee houses that you might normally find me at. As I’m here so often other customers have come to know me, if not in person,
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