With over 40 years in business, I have been around a lot of leaders and people who claimed they were leaders- but what I found out later was they were just really good showman. They were not in it for the customer or for me as an employee, but only for themselves.
Showmanship is the ability […]
The U.S. surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, called for a warning label for social media platforms in a New York Times Guest Essay, advising parents that the technology may fuel a mental health crisis among their children.
He suggested that such a label would be similar to those placed on cigarettes and alcohol products.
In his guest […]
You have an employee that you have known for a long time that isn’t getting the job done and you need to fire them. In fact, you should have done it a long time ago. This is always a difficult thing to do but do you let them go before or after the holiday?
This is […]
I hate to lose, but I know how to be a good loser when it comes. You need to know too.
Some people say that you should never “be good at losing” since that opens you up to the possibility of losing; and you should never lose. This is silly and just blind bravado since it’s […]
People always ask me why I do long distance cycling sometimes biking over 150 miles in one day. My simple answer is that I was never much of an athlete, but the one competitive quality I possess is that if I am targeting a goal, I never ever give up. I can always keep on […]
It’s the time of year that many people make specific New Year’s Resolutions for their personal lives or their small business. I made them in the past but now I really don’t think they are effective.
An article by Tara Parker- Pope in the Washington Post suggested an alternative approach. She says to pick […]