KEEP PRESSING
Intelligence, like grapes, must be processed and refined; like great wine, it takes time to mature! Wisdom is the fine wine of pressing in! Keep pressing, shaking together, overflowing! Cheers, to your health, wealth and […]
Category: NOTES FROM THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS
Have you ever been there, “The School of Hard Knocks?” Some lessons you only need to learn once; other lessons, twice, three times or a Master’s degree worth of experience is required! Book knowledge just won’t teach you what real life can and will teach you, not that you have to experience everything yourself. When you have to learn a lesson for yourself, you know the real cost. These are the lessons we never forget, priceless!
LEADERSHIP POWER
Question: Is the goal of leadership to ASSERT POWER or EMPOWER? It depends, do you want an organization that works when you’re gone? Remember: “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make […]
SAVING SEARS (SAVING HOME)
CHEERS TO SEARS: Bankruptcy Update Sears has been a household name for my family for as long as I can remember! Likewise, it has been around so long, I thought it would always be an […]
GAME ON
Life is like a video game, you don’t get to the next level until you master the one you’re on! – Gibbism
HORSE SENSE
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make them drink. You can lead a person to knowledge, but you can’t make them _____ (fill in the blank) … OR CAN YOU? Sometimes, how […]
COUNT IT ALL GOoD
Every victory is not pretty, but GOoD…! We can put our faith wherever we choose (e.g., luck, happenstance, lucky rabbit’s foot, hard work), but when you know (even if you have to read between the […]
THE DINO-SOUR: CROSSING THE J-O-B BRIDGE
The heart of the matter is that life continues to change, and it brought a friend – challenges. The changes we see in the workplace today are “unlike” those of previous years (e.g., in IT […]
CHIPS AND SAILING SHIPS
If we would stop, take the chip off our shoulders (e.g., pride, ego, poor collaboration or team work) and be open to new options/opportunities, where could we be? And if we don’t? Psst, don’t wait until […]
UNCOMMON SENSE
Be thankful for those who work within the confines of “common sense,” for they minimize chaos. Likewise, appreciate those who challenge the boundaries of “reason” for they open new frontiers. Where “normal” thinkers grasp a concept […]
THE DOER
Life has taught me that the only people who DO are the DOERS (e.g., People who ACT like they forgive really don’t and people how act like they CAN’T forgive, really don’t want to; Doers DO). If you […]