With the Winter Games winding down in the blink of an eye it will be time to refocus on London and the Summer Games of 2012. A couple days ago I was reading the paper when my wife interrupted with news that pole dancing is being pushed as a new … [Read more...]
Why Companies Herd Cats
My friends in the staffing and recruiting profession stay relentlessly busy and vital to their organizations because of a universal reality: Not everyone on the payroll cares about the company paying them. Every company is comprised of good workers, … [Read more...]
When to Stay, When to Leave
With worker dissatisfaction at a record high, from it springs a question: When should I stay in a job and when should I leave? There are strong parallels between a worker's job loyalty and that of a personal relationship. When we invest time, … [Read more...]
Dimpled Idiot
note: Despite living in a glass house of my own, I am compelled to roll a boulder toward another. Here is an inescapable truth: I no longer can stomach Tiger Woods. ↓ Watching Tiger Woods pretend to have a “news conference” with no journalists and … [Read more...]
Sweat Dancing
Sweat dancing is a spontaneous participation sport endemic of wedding receptions and overcrowded rooms with high humidity and poor ventilation, with cover bands loudly blasting songs from the sweatees’ formative years. The igniter is booze, the … [Read more...]
How to Stay Young: Avoid the Reflexive Loop
According to reviewers my novels and screenplays are fun to read because I write good characters. Great characters can carry a good story. Lousy ones can’t. One key to writing good characters is that I meet and know a lot of people, which helps … [Read more...]
Selling Value In A Tight Economy
This weekend I’ll be in New Orleans as a guest panelist during the American Marketing Association’s annual convention. New Orleans is one of two cities where Americans act squirrely the instant they exit the airplane. The other is Las Vegas. Each … [Read more...]
The Crab & The Eel
I was born in Philadelphia and lived in its suburbs until seventh grade, when my family moved mid-year to Severna Park, Maryland, a pretty town nine miles up the Severn River from where Annapolis and the Naval Academy meet the mouth at the Chesapeake … [Read more...]
Margaret’s Tree
When I finished speaking recently at Jacksonville University I took a walk across the campus to inspect a flowering cherry blossom tree. It was a cold afternoon by north Florida standards, the breezy mid-fifties. I have lived in Colorado for eleven … [Read more...]
“It’s Not a Business, It’s A Club”
I think the reason Los Angeles is on the left coast and New York is on the right is because they are too different to be any closer. LA is Ali, New York Joe Frazier. Chicago is the referee in the middle. I was in Los Angeles for 24 hours and movie … [Read more...]