Light a Candle or the Escalator Clause
Light a Candle or Curse the Darkness: The Escalator Clause Experienced while walking past a delayed elevator with a working escalator a few feet away: A person was pounding on the “up” button and swearing…
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Its still work
It’s still work They say if you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life. Hmm. I love what I do but it’s still work. When you work for someone else……
What’s the biggest mistake you ever made pt 3 power dynamics
What’s the biggest mistake you ever made? (part 3) And what would I do next time? I’ve been writing about my biggest mistake, and that was the broken relationship with my secretary at my first…
What’s the biggest mistake you ever made pt 2 fixing it
What’s the biggest mistake you ever made? (part 2) And why didn’t I fix it? As a marketing professor, I often ask my students to work in teams on behalf of a real-world client. The…
What’s the biggest mistake you ever made
What’s the biggest mistake you ever made? We can keep this within the realm of work. It helps me keep the list to a manageable number. Let’s go back to my shopping mall job, the…
Discovery and Creativity
A little too ironic, and yeah I really do think Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian biochemist was quoted as saying that “discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” Arthur Schopenhauer,…
JOMP versus GELMO
New words! GELMO: Good enough, let’s move on. JOMP: Just one more push! What are your thoughts on stepping back from something that’s “good enough” versus spending a little more time to get to what…
No BS Steve S
Hello and welcome to my BS Hall of Fame, an occasional series lovingly and gratefully dedicated to the people who have called me on my own BS. Our tour today begins with my conversation with…
Brain Freeze 2
Brain freeze pt. 2: Some more thoughts about valuable life lessons learned while calmly guiding my two-ton careening combustion carriage from Alabama to my home during the latest blizzard of 2021 • In a crisis,…
Brain Freeze 1
Brain freeze! Over the weekend, I drove to Huntsville AL and back, about 600 miles each way, to visit family. A good reason, the best, which only took some of the sting out of the…