Getting a New Job Last summer I was contacted eight days in a row by professionals from five countries on three continents, each asking for help during a job search. Some wanted to find a new opportunity, others had to. Their questions were … [Read more...]
Tuki (Back in the Game with Tweedle & Friends)
Tuki (Back in the Game with Tweedle & Friends) Life involves chapters that advance through stages. How we see the world as a teenager is different than how we process life a generation later. This progression lured me into writing a novel … [Read more...]
Lucas Goes to Cabo (comedy novella)
Lucas Goes to Cabo It is harder to make someone laugh than cry, which is why I love to bring smiles to readers through character-rich ensemble comedies. Having written comedy for money since I was 17, I'm somewhat adept judging good from bad. Lucas … [Read more...]
My Life Skills & Business Books: the what & why of each
Business & Life Skills Intertwined whether we like it or not As my teaching and global consulting career has unfolded, I constantly strive to add equity to what I teach and how I teach it. These seven books are part of my intellectual … [Read more...]
The Rising Tide of Global Sadness
I read this piece by David Brooks recently and thought it was so timely and compelling I would share his work in its entirety. I have spent a lot of time over the past few months trading thoughts with some of my contacts around the world on this same … [Read more...]
“The Box” —- What’s in Yours?
The Box holds life’s values, choices, and experiences, its perimeter strung with lights to navigate what a friend calls “all the rest of it.” Decisions and life experiences sort and police what goes in The Box and what does not. Life would be clean, … [Read more...]
“Getting a New Job” book release!
Thrilled this one is out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BB5RRR8P?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 Just as "Managing the Worry Circle" helped people around the world, so will this. For most, the worst part of a new job isn't doing what's required, it … [Read more...]
exciting new book release!!! “Tuki (Back in Game with Tweedle & Friends)”
The greatest character I have ever created--diminutive Kiwi recluse Tuki Banjo--emerges from hiding twenty years after shocking the world and suddenly disappearing. For the second time in life Tuki, a full generation after she rocketed to national … [Read more...]
Brief Interview with Entrepreneur Site
Here is a quick link to an interview I did yesterday with a site that supports and encourages entrepreneurs. I don't talk about my back story too often, but everyone comes from somewhere and here's where a major fork in the road led me twenty-plus … [Read more...]
“Getting a New Job” nears release
Written to help job applicants interview more confidently and effectively, the release of Getting a New Job has been moved up to the first of August. As with the rest of my business and research work, this coaching guide is heavy on behavioral … [Read more...]