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Take This Job -Sep 21, 2021

Johnny Paycheck was perhaps most famous for his 1977 recording of the tenderly entitled song, Take This Job and Shove It. In it we hear the plaintive cry of a man feeling under-appreciated and poorly treated by his boss. In times of job scarcity most people feeling that way won’t Read More

Resources Through the Noise -Jan 18, 2021

Reading time – 31 seconds . . . The world – and likely your world – is awash in information. That makes it difficult to wade through the noise to find what’s useful to you. That’s just one reason why it’s important that we share the good stuff we find. Read More

Of Course You Do -Dec 22, 2020

Jabbering about multitasking was all the rage as cell phones began to blanket the world. There was talk of greater productivity because doing two things at once would quite obviously cut the time needed to accomplish both. Just do the math, right? Turns out what was obvious just ain’t so, Read More

We Need Your Ideas and So Do You -Apr 23, 2020

Reading time – 39 seconds; Viewing time – 1:44 . . . We humans are odd critters in many ways. One of them is that we’re uncomfortable seeing a problem that needs to be solved that doesn’t get fixed. If we don’t do anything about it, not only will we Read More

DePaul University -Apr 07, 2020

Reading time – 24 seconds; Viewing time – 16:57 . . . Every semester my former Vistage CEO member Bruce Leech, now Executive Director of the Coleman Entrepreneurial Center at DePaul University in Chicago, asks me to present to his senior year students. It’s immensely rewarding and fun to be Read More

High BLM -Jul 30, 2019

Reading time – 39 seconds; Viewing time – 1:25 . . . Of course you’re focused on the bottom line. And there really is more to leadership and performance and a new study by Baylor University lays it out for us. What they found is what you know if you’ve Read More

New Friend Steve -Apr 16, 2019

Reading time – 39 seconds; Viewing time – 1:23 seconds . . . It’s great to find a new friend, but I’m a bit concerned about my future with Steve. He’s an AT&T chat person and I needed his help logging in to their website so I could explore my Read More

What Would President Eisenhower Say? -Dec 11, 2018

Reading time – 39 seconds; Viewing time – 2:14 . . . Here’s President Eisenhower on leadership: “. . . I tell you this: you do not lead by hitting people over the head. Any damn fool can do that, but it’s usually called ‘assault’ – not ‘leadership’.” That Read More

Focused On Business -Nov 09, 2018

Reading time – 29 seconds; Listening time – 48 minutes . . . Terry White runs Sunwest Trust, Inc. in Albuquerque, NM. In further service to the community, he hosts a business radio program on KIVA, called Focused on Business. I was recently in Albuquerque and Terry asked me to Read More

Standing Taller -Aug 30, 2018

Reading time – 2:23 – longer than usual and you’ll see why . . . Capt. (Ret) Bob Schoultz is a retired Navy SEAL officer, an educator at the Naval War College and the US Naval Academy. He consults for the SEALs and US Customs and Border Protection and he Read More