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Here is a corporate America story worth its weight in cookies. Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate it, and happy holidays to all!
ASHLAND, Ohio (CNN) — An Ohio bakery shut down in October is bustling again, with 60 eager employees who had expected a Christmas on the unemployment rolls. Some 300 workers lost [...]
Waiting Is OK
One of the time mastery experts from whom we heard during our recent Time Experts Telesummit talked about the way we are conditioned to react to stimuli. He asked listeners to reflect on how they react to things such as a newly arrived email, a ringing phone, a doorbell, a fire alarm. And I noticed [...]
Paying attention to the coaching
The coaching is around you always …it’s your job to pay attention to it.
This means that life is always giving you information, and the more you pay attention to what the messages are, the more you can navigate through it with ease.
My time in TX has been a reminder of this concept, to be open [...]
Jamie
I have a client and let’s call him Jamie. Jamie has a job he can’t stand, except for the fact that he is allowed to do it half a world away from the organization’s headquarters. So even though he now rolls his eyes so much during conference calls that he’s in danger of going cross-eyed, [...]
Planning May Be Overrated
I just read a delightful little book by Daniel Pink called Johnny Bunko, The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need. Written in the Japanese comic style of Manga, it strikes me as a career guide for people who hate career guides. And its message is clearly boiled down to 6 key lessons. (And no, I [...]
The Gift of Our Discontent
“The most precious gift God has given to this land is not its great riches of soil and forest and land, but the divine discontent planted deeply in the hearts of the American people.”
–Newspaper editor William Allen White
Political pundit Chris Matthews closed his Sunday show this week with this quote and shared the following about [...]
Big Experiment
I’m conducting a big experiment this month. I’ve decided to put my idea of independent work to the ultimate test, and leave San Francisco to spend a month in Dallas.When I worked for Corporate America, aka ‘the man’, I used to fantasize about being able to take off for extended periods and still earn a [...]
Shifting to an entrepreneurial mindset
I began reading Inc. Magazine long before I quit my job at the wine distributor and pursued coaching as my career. I loved reading it because it made me feel like I was an entrepreneur – I had evidence! I could reach in my bag and pull out a magazine specifically targeted at those who owned their [...]
3 Signs of a Miserable Job
If you are feeling lost in your work, perhaps your job is suffering from one or more of the warning signs described by author Patrick Lencioni in his book, The Three Signs of a Miserable Job (read more about it here). Written as a parable, the book describes a fictional man who comes out of retirement [...]
When is good, good enough?
When is good, good enough?
I’ve been thinking of clients I’ve worked with who consistently over achieve at work, which may on the surface seem a good thing. And yet what happens is they get caught up in doing *the best* job possible regardless of whether the current task requires it or not. Doing your best [...]