I received a two-paragraph e-mail the other day from someone looking to connect with me at an upcoming event. She spelled my name right, told me it's her second time going to an event put on by this particular group, and said she hoped we'd get to meet. So far so...
If you know the secret sauce, please let me know. A lot of people have strategies to facilitate regular blog posts. In fact, I'm doing several things right: Don't strive for perfection. There are very few killer blog posts, and waiting until every element is perfectly...
Do you lead with your attitude? Trick question actually. We all lead with our attitudes. It's just what attitude you're showing that counts. And you can learn a lot by how people act when they don't know you. There are 5-10 "regulars" who strength train at my gym...
Did you see what happened when Michael Vick came into the Eagles-Packers game in Week 1? The team got excited. Vick's past character issues aside, this is a talented guy who can lead a team. As soon as he came into the game, the Eagles perked up. They had energy and a...
I had the pleasure of presenting a Webinar for Higher Logic last week on building a vibrant, connected community.We looked at four "in house" things you must do first, and then talked about some strategies for identifying and reaching out to your audience, building...
As a child, I loved Paris-Charles de Gaulle for its space age bubble with the escalators going in all directions. It was avant garde with a touch of Star Trek before I knew about Star Trek. And it belonged to an era where there was still an illusion that air travel...
I was wrong. Utterly and completely. I argued with my mom in early August that former HP CEO Mark Hurd would only be unemployed for a year or so. (She thought his career was over.) That he’d do a requisite stint in the wilderness and then get some cushy consulting...
Are you happy at work? The Pew Research Center released a study the other day that finds that 26 percent of all employed workers in the United States have been out of work at some point since the economic downturn began. While it's good that some people have found new...
It's Labor Day in America. A day when, ironically, most of us get a rare day off from work. To celebrate Labor Day, here's a brief excerpt from "Every Blessed Day." It's an amazing poem from Philip Levine's award-winning What Work Is: Waiting at the corner he feels...
So I go out of town for a few days and miss the big sports story. No, not that story. This one. What's interesting about the Jay Mariotti story isn't the facts. Or even the arrest. It's the glee with which just about everyone has greeted the news. Apparently this guy...