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Try painting yourself into a corner sometime. Where the tried-and-true solutions won’t work. Constraints force us to dig deeper. Step out of our comfort zone. Try something you wouldn’t have tried otherwise. Maybe get a…

It’s easy to give advice. I think I find it easy to take advice too. But for me to heed the words that I say to others? Not so easy. So this one is for…

Let’s show everyone how we’re celebrating the end of the week! Today is the seventh anniversary of the Cubs winning the World Series (Eastern time, out of respect to Cleveland, where the game was won)….

Do you believe in “Fake it ‘til you Make It”? You probably have heard that phrase, and it seems like a positive approach, doesn’t it? But it’s the “fake it” part that we need to…

You just might have to dial down the crazy a little bit… but not too much. We had a client a few years back, a children’s museum. We spent a session brainstorming some ways to…

Baseball’s Southwest Regional Finals (aka The World Series), has overshadowed the announced retirement of Dusty Baker, who led the Houston Astros to their own title last season. I’m a Dusty fan. He’s proven himself to…

It’s easy to give advice. I think I find it easy to take advice too. But for me to heed the words that I say to others? Not so easy. So this one is for…

Face Front! Friday! Let’s show everyone how we’re celebrating the end of the week! It was a great week. I hope yours was too. Make it a wonderful weekend. See you Monday.

The first time I remember seeing the word “mentor” was watching a Saturday morning kids show called Shazam! in the 1970s. The actor who portrayed the character Mentor, Les Tremayne, was actually a pretty amazing…

Are you a mentor to somebody… professionally or personally? What do you get from that relationship, what value does your protégé offer? And what value are you providing to your protégé in return? Don’t be…