Alan Culler and I are comfortable calling ourselves “old sales guys.” Recently, we each watched a video where a consultant described how a company could connect with its customers using information that they already had, “personalizing” the customer experience. The young man wasn’t a great presenter, but there was nothing wrong with the content he […]
“A woodworker must “apply a thousand skills” to find the ideal use for each piece of wood, respecting the “soul of the tree” and shaping it to realize its true potential” George Nakashima, architect, artist, builder of beautiful wood furniture worked until his nineties. Now his children carry on his craft. In the fourteenth […]
“The creepy spiders need to be lower. Kids are short, They need to turn their head and be looking directly into those red eyes.” “You are normally such a sweet person. What happens to you at Halloween?” “Being scared is what Halloween is all about?” “I thought it was about the candy.” “Nah, it’s about […]
This picture was on a birthday card I received last week. It is a real photo of Rolland “Rollie” Free setting the motorcycle land speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats September 13, 1948 eleven months after I was born. Rollie Free raced Indian motorcycles before World War II. He set a record at 111 […]
I wrote a book on consulting. I am writing another book on leading change. This quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower is in both books. “In planning for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable” This quote is attributed to Eisenhower in Richard Nixon’s book Six Crises. It is also […]
This picture is a cartoon archetype. A guru, hermit, wiseman sits before the mouth of a cave high in the mountains. Before him sits a young seeker, a supplicant, whose backpack indicates he has climbed high into the mountains looking for answers to his burning question: “What is the meaning of life?” The punchlines almost […]
To tell you the truth, I’m exhausted. I mean, I did manage to hold my pee till first light, and that seemed to make my man happy, but it wasn’t easy. I mean, I am so thirsty all the time and I drank a whole bowl since bedtime. But wait, I’m forgetting my manners. Hello, […]
The roots of a love affair When I was a pre-teen, I read a book about Doug, an American teenager immersed in hot rod culture. The story was about Doug finding himself, but was full of descriptions of bored-out V8s and chopped and channeled old Fords, accompanied in my memory by Chuck Berry songs, “. […]
Carl asks “Why? Whaddyer tryin’ t’be an Influencer or sumtin’?” Carl, a voice from my youth, not a friend exactly, just someone I used to know, questioned why I write this blog, and post on LinkedIn, and Medium, and BizCatalyst 360. He couldn’t understand my motivation. Truthfully, I was having a difficult time explaining it. […]
“I forgot how to pack!” My wife and I don’t travel as much as I imagined we would when I retired in 2018. Part of that is on me. I travelled for a living for almost forty years and the last thing I was interested in was another trip on an airplane or another night […]
