Yearly Archives: 2008
Does email overload help us?
Tim Sanders wrote a blog entry that references a Business Week article on information overload I commented on last week. The writer suggests that information overload might be good. There might be some valuable information, and besides, young people can … Continue reading
Be Thankful; It’s All in Your Mind
A Financial Tailspin sucks! Don’t compound it. We’re going through some … interesting … times, financially. People feel insecure, established institutions are in desperate need of bailout (funny how attractive socialism becomes when you’re the one who needs the handout) … Continue reading
Nightmare or Hope? Your decision.
You have only yourself to blame for the quality of your decisions. Improve it. Start today. Are you committed to becoming a spot-on decision-maker who can make great decisions that actually guide your world? Because chances are, your personal decision-making … Continue reading
The key to ethical, sane behavior: the *little* voice.
Your little voice may have all the answers you need. Have you ever wondered how certain corrupt businesspeople can keep spouting great, moral words while doing the exact opposite in their behavior? You wonder how they can wax eloquent about … Continue reading
Groupthink, brainwashing, and politics: eek!
Maybe you’ve been successfully brainwashed and just don’t know it. How would you? … Continue reading
Ten Cultural Career Lies
I believed these lies for most of my life. Recently, the conventional wisdom started seeming suspect. I called several mid-career classmates and asked about their successes and failures. Upon close examination, much of what I had believed to be true about careers did not seem to hold. Continue reading
Update your user experience…or die!
Your survival could depend on it! Are you up to date with your user experience? I have been coveting my friend’s iPhone. It is true I have both a Palm Pilot and a Blackberry but the iPhone is getting more … Continue reading
Happy or Successful? Which will you pursue?
Click here to listen to this as a podcast. Download the “Happy or Successful” diagram that goes with the article. On a recent birthday I was looking back at the strategies that my friends from high school and college and … Continue reading








