No time? Are you Deciding or Delegating? If you’re a business owner, team leader or manager, then you’ve likely had the experience of going through a full day and not getting anything done. Possibly because you’re easily distracted (it happens – Squirrel!!! ), but more likely the problem is that every time you started to focus on something and get stuff done, […]
Why Blogging Makes Good Business Sense
As the story often goes, it all happened mostly by accident. 20 yrs ago Jorn Barger coined a term “weblog” as he was writing his Robot Wisdom articles and then logging them on the web.  It was a “web log.”   A couple years later, as more of a joke, Peter Merholz broke the word into […]
The Power of Positive Thinking?
So I saw in interesting article in the Men’s Journal (May 2007 – I’m not doing a good job of keeping up with the backlog…). Anyway, the article was titled “Think Yourself Stronger (how sports hypnosis boosts performance)”.  The essence of the article was that the author was trying sports hypnosis as a way to […]
What do Soap Operas and Social Media have in common?
There’s a lot of people talking about how bad the economy is, how bad the impact on business is and how there are a lot of similarities between today’s current environment and the Great Depression. It’s all really cheerful stuff. However, it does inspire reflection and in my case a bit of a history lesson. […]
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