“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 […]
Immigrants “That dust was everywhere. It got in your eyes, up your nose so you couldn’t draw a breath. So you breathed through your mouth and the grit was always on your teeth and crunched with everything you ate. The quarry slowed and there were no jobs, and then – America, the land of golden […]
I chose to become an independent consultant twice in my lifetime consulting career. I must have liked it because I was independent in various forms for twenty-three of my thirty-seven years in the field. The first time my boss gave me the opportunity to go on contract for a year, work about half-time, control my […]
