Thanks for stopping by. I hope you like this and will subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I have a friend who is on the brink of losing everything. Her home. Her savings. Her retirement…
It isn’t pretty. She says it’s a matter of weeks before she bottoms out.
This year, we are learning to [...]

It’s been a week since the Rocky Mountain News published its final edition. Some of my old colleagues have forged on, using the Internet to keep the Rocky’s spirit alive at www.iwantmyrocky.com. This is pretty revolutionary stuff.
It reminds me of the time the IRS shut down a Popeye’s Chicken franchise in Denver. The next morning, [...]

There is a right way to make change. There is a wrong way to make change. Any beginning leadership book will tell you that. It will tell you about getting input from others so that you create the buy-in that will make you successful. It will tell you how to stage change so things are [...]

Change is more visible and rapid-fire as leaders jostle to protect their companies during tough times. They cut budgets, transfer resources, try new procedures, move people around, take things away, start using new terms, voice new visions and continually shake things up in hopes of doing what they have to do in order to weather [...]

There still are a few work environments where the old boss is still in charge doing the same old things the old way. But, those situations are definitely the exception. Today’s workplace has changed. And changed.
Last night, I had dinner with a Wal-Mart executive who explained the whole rap on Gen X and Y [...]

When I started my career, there were only three ways to transmit a document from one place to another: 1) Deliver it yourself 2) mail it 3) use a “Quip” machine, where you’d attach the document to a cylinder that would spin around as a telephone line transmitted information to a similar machine that would [...]

I was on an airplane with someone who was in a loop lamenting how much our world has changed since before 9/11. It is true. Before we felt the vulnerability that came from being attacked on our own soil, we lived very different, sheltered lives. Those were the good old days, and we didn’t even [...]

“You can do better than this.”
I can still hear my mother’s voice.
I was in the tenth grade and I had brought home a report card that boasted a few As, a couple of Bs, a C and the only  D I’d ever gotten - in geometry. I didn’t see anything wrong with that report card [...]