Memorial Day 2014 Reflection
This Memorial Day I am remembering, not only those who died serving our nation, but all those who have served and those currently serving.
Category Archives: The Personal Side
The Tyranny of the Urgent: Do Important Things When and While You Can
Do important things when and while you can. In business and life, this idea can be critically important. Unfortunately, many of us get caught up in the seemingly urgent aspects of our business and personal lives that keep us from focusing on the few really important things that need to be done at the present time to help insure a better future.
Do You Ask Enough Questions?
If you employ a questioning attitude, you can expand on what is known in many ways, to achieve what would otherwise have been unknown. And the previously unknown builds on our knowledge and ability to learn and do more. The example presented in this post is pretty simple, but powerful. You can do similar things by asking questions about what you see and hear and then comparing what you learn with what you already know or can infer.
Practice Makes Perfect – Or Does It?
Perfect practice is more than simple repetition. Perfect practice means doing whatever it takes to improve your craft. Perfect practice means grappling with your craft and growing with it. Perfect practice takes you where you have never been before and separates you from most of your competition who believe that mere practice makes perfect.
10 Thoughts on CEO Management Succession for Private Companies
Management transitions can be difficult. Most aging baby boomers simply don’t want to think about management transitions. But we have to do this for our own good and for the good of our companies and all of our stakeholders.
9 Ways the Fitbit Will ChangeYour Life
I have been a fan of the Fitbit pedometer for well more than two years. Using this little device regularly has changed how I think about exercise and movement in fundamental ways. And it has been good for my health. So how will a Fitbit (or any other pedometer you pay attention to) bring about changes in your life?
The Amazing Fitbit Pedometer and More
If you are like me and many Boomers, it is just difficult to find time to get in regular workouts. Travel, work, meetings, family activities, social activities, and on. It sometimes seems that everything and everyone are conspiring to keep you from working out. But I chanced upon an often overlooked “trick” to getting a reasonable amount of exercise on an almost daily basis and began a journey by introducing regular walking into my life. I found a digital friend to help and now walk 10,000 steps or more on most days.
Personal Branding and Three “Good Life” Habits
Personal branding is something we all do, whether consciously or not. Personal branding is part of selling, whether you are selling a product or service, or whether you are selling yourself and your services and abilities within your own organization. Personal branding is something that builds momentum when you pay attention to the basics on a daily basis. Personal branding is, well, personal. No one can or will do it for you. This post talks about the importance of personal branding along with my “good life” habits.
10 Things to be Thankful for as 2013 Ends – and Then, Goals for 2014
Everyone talks about goals at the end of each year. That’s good. We all should have them. The end of one year and the beginning of another is always a time to think about the future and goals. However, absent an appropriate context, forward-thinking can be useless. That context for me is in thankfulness for all of my life’s many blessings. Every reader of this blog is blessed in many ways. I hope you and I will always be thankful for our blessings. Then, we can talk about goals.
10 Reasons That Businesses Change Ownership
Ownership and management transitions for business owners are key topics of this blog. Sometimes, however, when I talk to business owners, they tend to believe that their businesses will be immune to the processes I’m talking about. After all, a few of us are going to live together, right? To put the concept of business ownership into perspective, this post discusses 10 reasons that business ownership changes hands. The list is not all-inclusive, but perhaps, as you read down the list, you will begin to see that this ownership transition thing could actually happen to you.