I grew up in the era of the Apollo moon launches. One of my earliest memories is traveling to Cape Canaveral and watching from the beach as one of the missions was launched towards the moon. It was pretty incredible. Despite frequent moves and attending six schools...
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What’s best: objective decisions or relationship-driven decisions?
@stephenparker on Twitter asked an excellent question: Is it better to be objective in our decision making, or should our relationships play a role? Is it better to be right or loyal? What a great question. Here's my answer: I used to be very into "being right." After...
Taxes, yummy taxes!
It's almost April 15th, that wonderful time of the year when we pay taxes. And I say this time of year sucks!! It doesn't suck because of taxes; they're inevitable. It sucks because of all the whining people do about taxes. People complain about taxes all the time....
How to Write a Good Cover Letter
People liked the "Ten Career Lies" so much that I've decided to share my "How to Write a Cover Letter" audio, "before" and "after" cover letter text. I created this page so I didn't have to have the same cover letter discussion with two dozen MBA coachees every year....
Ten Cultural Career Lies revised
Steve Mills pointed out that the Ten Cultural Career Lies handout was framed entirely in terms of limitations and negativity. I've revised it. See the attached ten-cultural-careers-and-success-lies-v3 See the article as a web page at:...
What would make this book unique?
A friend asked a very good question: how will my book be different from the other productivity books on the market? My intent is to provide tips that cover a wide range of emotionally-powerful issues that have simple, behavioral solutions that impact people's feelings...
Just posted my recording equipment specs.
Click the "recording specs" link to the left to see my recording setup. You can judge the results for yourself.
Ten Cultural Lies of Careers and Success
Based on reader feedback, I've update this. See the revised, better handouts here. I gave a talk at Harvard Business School about ten myths we have in our culture about careers and success. By popular demand, I've posted a copy of the handout booklet here: Ten...
Welcome to my Get-it-Done Guy book blog!
Welcome! This BLOG will be a place for the community helping and critiquing as I write the Get-it-Done Guy book. Please note that for simplicity, anything and everything you post on this BLOG becomes my property for possible use in my book, presentations, etc. I...
Using Twitter as a research tool! Follow me…
What a great idea! Twitter is a little one-to-many text messaging tool. I can send out a text message to Twitter, and everyone who has elected to "follow" me gets the message. The intent of Twitter is that you send out a message answering the question, "what are you...