Maybe it’s how Rembrandt started. In 2005, News of the Weird reported bustling sales for artist Erin Crowe's series of oil paintings of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who at the time was riding high. Greenspan-worshipping money managers … [Read more...]
Adapting a Novella to Screenplay
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 … [Read more...]
Why April 15 is Income Tax Day
Today, April 15, is Tax Day, a tradition less than a century old. During our nation’s infancy the United States government raised revenue easily; it taxed whiskey and tobacco. Since we’ve always been a consumer-driven society, they collected a whole … [Read more...]
Sales Personality Types
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 … [Read more...]
A Small Box from the Postman
I was working at home Thursday afternoon when the postman rang. I opened the door and had to sign for a small box he was holding. While surprised to see him I knew what was inside. I signed and printed my name, accepted the box, and took it back to … [Read more...]
Why Tiger Became the Madoff of Corporate Integrity
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 … [Read more...]
News Fit for a Monday
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 … [Read more...]
Tiger Woods, Meet Groucho Marx
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 … [Read more...]
Why Shoes?
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 … [Read more...]
Why the World Spins Faster
A friend of mine posed an interesting question: Is it appropriate for someone to use Facebook to chastise a co-worker? To me, it's not. But who's to say? The more I study how people use the tool as a blending device that connects work habits with … [Read more...]