Meetings are a big deal in business. Some people really dislike them and see them as a waste of time. Some people spend most of their days in them. They can be collaborative environments of brainstorms, managerial discussions on decision making, tactical executions of pressing needs and more.
The meeting is the quintessential [...]
Since basketball has ended and my beloved Timberwolves retired to their dens to lick reopened wounds, I’ve been mulling about the apartment with less to do. It struck me the other day that my habits have changed a great deal.
My youthful pursuits included wakeboarding and tubing, basketball, videogames, ladies, kicking it with friends, frisbee golf [...]
…Powerpoint is.
In a recent review, I remarked how previously I’d always thought I was more of a visual person. The other person remarked how my style was more predicated on writing and words. It wasn’t to say that my visual ability was inhibited or anything of that sort, but that my propensity is naturally to [...]
As a continuation on the “Being the Best” post from a few days ago, I’d like to look briefly at internal competition. Internal competition is healthy to a certain extent as it can bring out the best in people who like competition or that want to perform given their surroundings, but it’s important to remember [...]
I saw an article on poets and quants (I’ll cover my take on “poets” and “quants” later) about black and white pictures and essays from Harvard Business School students. It was really good, and it made me want to write. The truth is that if I’d never gone into business, I would have been a [...]
There’s an adage in business, whatever or wherever you work, your job is to make your boss look good. Or make your boss happy. I’ve heard both.If you’re not in business that might sound really odd. And it is. ”Make your boss look good” is almost never in a job description or how you’re actually [...]
Deep breath. That was a mouthful. Seriously, I probably should have just left the subtitles out.
It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed a book. The last one was One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. That’s pathetic as it was in August! There is good reason for this. The books I’m currently reading were the [...]
The other week I brought up the fact that we are currently at roughly 7 Billion people on Earth. That’s a grandiose amount of folks! Here’s a question, where do all these folks live? Let’s look
As you can see, the really high concentrations are in India and China. India currently has 1.2B people; China has [...]
Today, a head hunter called me at work. This happens every few months. I was a bit taken aback today though. Someone left me a message with their name and I could not figure out who it was, but thought it might be important, so I called back. It was just [...]
When a business just gets started, it has to change very quickly just to survive. Most companies start and almost immediately begin to see if the product/service they are creating has value and if they can pay their bills on time…or if change is necessary. Change is actually always necessary, but more on that in [...]