Recognition Choices and Types Smart leaders recognize employees for doing fine work. Recognition can be supplied in many ways but all techniques fall into one of two categories, either formal or informal. Formal recognition involves a tangible … [Read more...]
Facebook: Cigarettes of the New Millennium (part 4 of 4)
Part 4 of 4: Quitting Facebook & the Withdrawal Experience Doing something requires more physical or emotional exertion than doing nothing and quitting Facebook at the end of January proved no exception. While I had mulled the thought of … [Read more...]
Facebook: Cigarettes of the New Millennium (part 3 of 4)
Part 3 of 4: Why People Get “Addicted” to Facebook All up, all in . . . is Facebook dependence an addiction? The short answer is no. Not yet. Medically speaking, Facebook overuse, obsession, or preoccupation is not considered (yet) to be a … [Read more...]
Facebook: Cigarettes of the New Millennium (part 2 of 4)
Part 2 of 4: Why People Use Facebook Dr. Brent Conrad, a clinical psychologist for TechAddiction, points out that excessive Facebook engagement can disrupt normal behavior but is not (yet) a recognized clinical disorder. On the positive … [Read more...]
Facebook: Cigarettes of the New Millennium (part 1 of 4)
Part 1 of 4: Why Facebook’s Appeal is So Strong I recently used a Time Magazine self-diagnostic program to analyze my historical Facebook use. In a matter of minutes, having tracked and backtracked through everything I had ever done on the site, … [Read more...]
12 Reasons to Love Visiting the United Kingdom
I recently revisited the United Kingdom for a couple weeks of facilitating sales classes and sidebar movie meetings in London and Manchester. As I do with every visit, when I wasn’t working I was exploring. I am a poster child for the African … [Read more...]
Life Skill Reminders: A Valuable Two Dozen
I spent much of February working overseas throughout the United Kingdom. At the end of each sales program I provided each attendee a printed summary of life skill reminders that are built into my work. Since life skills are relevant to everyone, … [Read more...]
The Demise of X-Factor & Putin’s X-Factor Olympic Games
Whether it’s Simon Cowell’s X-Factor USA or Vlad Putin’s X-Factor Winter Olympics, what makes a show expected to be good do just the opposite and bomb? After three seasons of hype, evaporating ratings, and invisible record sales, Cowell’s singing … [Read more...]
Movie Update: “Bonefish” (The Galloping Ghost of Bimini)
Due to what I perceived to be highly questionable ethical, moral, and business decisions by the producers who secured this project under what I came to believe were false pretenses, I have regained all film rights from Eaton Square Ltd. (T. … [Read more...]
Success: What it Isn’t . . . and Is
Barbara King of NPR recently reintroduced Amy Chua’s inflammatory opinions into the discussion of success in modern America. Chua wrote a book about raising her daughter according to the strict (high) expectations of her own parents, who were … [Read more...]