You’ll most likely engage me to solve a problem or exploit an opportunity and I’ll do that and do it well. But in the end, I want to deliver “The Joy of Work”. My typical client leads a small business. Many times they are the founder. But, founder or not, when they took the helm…
“If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.” A sign with this Chinese proverb hung on my office wall for a long time. A reminder of the penalty for a lack of focus. However, I’ve built my consulting practice around the need for eight essential disciplines – Build a Healthy Culture Hire, Keep, and…
The movie, not the annual event in Punxsutawney, PA. Most of you have seen the 1993 movie starring Bill Murray and Andie McDowell. I asked AI to summarize it. A cynical TV weatherman, Phil Connors, finds himself trapped in a time loop, reliving Groundhog Day endlessly in Punxsutawney, PA. Slowly, repeated failure and despair force…
Title Loans, Payday Loans, Loan Sharks. If you annualized the interest rate on a title loan, it could be as high as 300%. If you annualized the interest rate on a payday loan, it could be as high as 459%. So why do people risk their future fiscal health by utilizing these financial tools? Desperation.…
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” Archimedes He was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who lived in Sicily about 250 years before Christ. Some of his inventions are still in use today. But Archimedes thoughts on leverage should…
It seemed obvious to me, but it was invisible to them. I think it’s baked into the plot of every reality TV dating show ever made. There’s one potential partner that is clearly a disaster but the contestant doing the choosing is inexplicably drawn to them until their defects are exposed later in the season.…