My wife loves Sting. In fact, she once told me early in our relationship that “if Sting ever shows up at my door, your shoes will be on the front stoop.” I love my wife. I also like Sting. So we have seen Sting in concert with The Police at Jones Beach, solo in Holmdel, […]
“There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip.” It’s the stuff of night-sweat dreams. You are standing in front of the executive group. The first month’s sales results of your new product launch are coming in LIVE. Everyone is expecting a WAVE. The results show up on the screen. They dribble. You promised […]
Today we honor fallen fighters, who’ve given their lives and limbs to war. Today is a day, among many, I wonder just whom that sacrifice is for. Some would say it’s for us, this ultimate service they give. Not to be unappreciative, but I would much rather they live. The old send the young to […]
“It has been a strange week here in Lake Wobegon.” This is how Garrison Keillor began his long-running humorous show, A Prairie Home Companion on Public Radio about the goings on in this fictional rural Minnesota town, “where the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.” There were […]
Fixin’ Bessie “What is that?” I was in the corner end of our basement that was my father’s “workshop.” Under one of those 12”x18” two pane cellar windows, sat my father’s hand-built workbench, vise on one end, grinder on the other. The rest of the workshop consisted of floor to ceiling shelves on one wall […]
These are three terms you might find on a business card, consultant, coach, advisor. Are they the same job? Does anyone use business cards anymore? When I was deciding to become a consultant in the late 1970s, no one would have suggested I might become a coach instead. John Wooden and Vince Lombardi were coaches. […]
After more than fifty-five years of working, I retired. We sold our house and moved to a condo complex on a ridge that overlooks New York City. On the rare clear morning that I am up early enough to view the sunrise the view is sometimes like the one above. In my retirement, I write, […]
Vacation from what? I think it may be time for a getaway. “Get away from what?” you might say. “You’re retired. You are taking a six month vacation twice a year.” Well, not really. Here I am writing to you, my generous reader. Vacation comes from the Latin, vacationem or vacatio meaning leisure, freedom, exemption […]
Some readers might remember that I occasionally write songs. In the fall of 2019, I wrote five songs that I have done nothing with since. I don’t do my own musical notation and several times since then I have thought, “I really should have Doug (a musician friend) transcribe those songs so I can copyright […]
Business is about People I don’t know why this idea should be as revolutionary as it seems to be. Let’s look at a definition of a business: One group of people, called producers, makes something or does something for another group of people, called customers. Whatever the producer people make or do for the customer […]
