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Adapting a Novella to Screenplay

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Been underground on the blog recently, as I’ve been consumed with completing of the screenplay adaptation of my surf-themed dramatic novella, The Rise and Fall of Piggy Church. I finished the script last night and sent it to my agent. I’ll know in a couple days what he thinks. If the story and its imaginarium […]

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Sales Personality Types

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One of the biggest challenges sales leaders face is how to develop the wide variety of personalities that form its field selling and relationship management organizations. This diverse personality dynamic is exemplified when the troops are gathered for a learning or skill development session. When assembled in a learning environment, salespeople tend to fall into […]

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Why Tiger Became the Madoff of Corporate Integrity

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Two snaking, overlapping things — narcissism and flawed personal integrity — reportedly branded as “sexual addiction,” have teamed to implode the legacy of Tiger Woods. Narcissism is a modern four-syllable synonym for what ancient Greeks called hubris. In Greek mythology Narcissus was a handsome young man who rejected the love of nymph Echo; as punishment, […]

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News Fit for a Monday

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Uma Thurman’s new film “Motherhood” is an epic flop at the U.K. box office: Only one Brit went to watch the movie on March 7, and the film  grossed an embarrassing $132 for the entire weekend. Thurman plays a stressed mom struggling  to balance parenting and  career. The film grossed a microscopic $60,000 in the […]

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Tiger Woods, Meet Groucho Marx

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In one of the most famous of sixteen movies the Marx Brothers made, A Day at the Races, Groucho stars as Hugo Z. Hackenbush, a horse veterinarian who impersonates the doctor of a sanatorium in danger of bankruptcy. Highlights include an insane phone call to Florida, brother Chico selling race tips, Groucho’s nutty medical exams, […]

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Why Shoes?

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Every day possible I walk my two dogs for 90 minutes through nearby Cherry Creek State Park. They get to run around and exchange sniff-sniff pleasantries with other dogs. I trudge along in my Timberland boots, battlescarred veterans of a million all-weather miles. I think when I walk and today I started wondering,”How many shoes […]

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A Baby Step for Tiger Woods

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Like most big cats, Tiger avoided deep water during yesterday’s five-minute interviews with ESPN and the Golf Channel. The talk tracks were well rehearsed and virtually identical, which was disappointing. To his credit, Woods took a small first step toward humanizing himself to a world that’s still trying to figure out whether to scorn his […]

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