Go Pats
It's one thing to root against Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the Patriots because you want to knock off the champs, but it's another because you despise an excellence that you feel you can't personally achieve. Their formula is discipline, enthusiasm,
Well, Try It Again
I had a power outage. Flipped all the relays, but that didn't help. So I flipped them all again, harder, and that did it. When something doesn't work, don't just give up. Try your solution again with more intent and focus. It
How Many Bulbs Are Lighted?
Two hallway ceiling lights both went dark, and at first I thought we had a fuse problem. But when I took them apart, I found that all three bulbs in each fixture were burned out. I then deduced that the
Running
If you were standing midway around an oval track, and someone said, "Get to the point opposite as fast as possible," would you run around the track or simply cut across the middle?! If you want to change from who
What’s On, What’s Up?
I'm in Adelaide at 5 am Monday morning and I found a channel showing all the NFL games in live action, alternating whenever there is a scoring play or exciting action (it's Sunday afternoon back home). I wish I could
Briefly
Practice keeping things simple. Don't provide "background." Ask a simple question in one sentence. Respond to a question with brevity. We often confuse complexity, length, and convolution with intelligence. Actually, they are in inverse proportion.
Blasphemy
I have found that audiences are far better served with provocation and by challenging them with new ideas than they are with commiseration, pandering, and "comfort food" (which many presentations resemble). Of course, the speaker must be oriented toward helping
Responses
I don't know if there are the proverbial "two kinds of people," but I do know there are two kinds of responses to new ideas: Let me tell you why that won't work. Let me figure out how I can
The Meaning of “Work”
When I lived in New Jersey, I would take a Pan Am helicopter from Newark to LaGuardia or Kennedy, fly to Montreal or Toronto, conduct business and sales calls, then return to New York, take the chopper back to Jersey,
OK, I Have A Problem
The best groups I've ever formed or facilitated have members who are uniformly comfortable being vulnerable. My wife commented once, while sitting in with the group's permission, that it was the first such meeting she'd ever attended where no one,