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Tired Old Dog Sunday afternoon. I was just sitting down with a snack after splitting and stacking a truckload of firewood. My wife blusters through the door. I feel like I have to explain that I have just sat down after a productive day of chores. She looks at the dog and says “What did …
Happy is the new Healthy! Attitude is a state of mind. The Amazon Kindle store is always trying to push books on me. They are like a drug dealer on the corner whispering sweet offers from the shadows every time I check my email. “Pssst! Hey Chris, we noticed you like science fiction, how about …
Thoughts on Asking for a Raise Or anything else Today we are going to talk through the process of what to do, and maybe what not to do, when you have to go talk to your boss about a raise. It is important to think through this because most people would just assume that all …
Urgency and economic cycles It has become trendy to use phrases like “especially in the current economy” for everything from marketing to whitepapers. This baffles me because aren’t we always in a ‘current economy’ of some sort? What they are most likely trying to do is to highjack some of the inherent urgency that macroeconomic …
Book Review for Goodreads. Originally published 1967. Edition read was Harper Business, 1993. I’m too young to have been part of the Drucker Generation. I had always heard him talked of and quoted among the staid and dusty corners of mainstream business, but I never thought to reach back and read him. Drucker’s words and …
