Blog Archives - Ocean Palmer

Life Without a Cell Phone? Possible or Impossible?

January 9, 2020 by Ocean Palmer 4 Comments

The Case of the Vacationing Cell Phone Could you go a month without one? I have … and it’s not all bad. Matter of fact, it will be six weeks tomorrow. If my friend Aleena Imran succeeds in her persistent attempt to get it released from customs in Pakistan and shipped back to me in […]

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The Pursuit of Happiness

January 20, 2019 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Do you buy this hypothesis or not? Last month Fast Company magazine published an on-line book promotion piece that claimed most of our beliefs about how to pursue happiness are wrong. If you take a look at this list and have a moment to let me know whether or not you buy what the authors are […]

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One Hourglass & the Three Great Mysteries of Life

August 29, 2017 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

The Hourglass of Life If each day of life is one grain of sand that gravity drops from the top of life’s birth-issued hourglass to the bottom, the average American male born in 1959 is assigned 24,399 grains. One of my best friends, Samuel Jay Davis III — “Smiler” as […]

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Simplified Strategic Planning: Work Smarter, Not Harder

August 8, 2016 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

The American Management Association says 80 percent of strategic plans are never executed. This, of course, translates to a colossal waste of time. Our one-day workshops teach the world’s best process for quickly building strategic plans that are truly “do-able.” The method is fast, replicable, and scalable. We are also available for multi-day facilitation to assist […]

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Donald Trump’s Curious Math: Addition by Division

March 14, 2016 by Ocean Palmer 2 Comments

As America heads into the stretch of its nomination free-for-all formerly known as presidential campaigning, the emotion of the Donald Trump candidacy deserves a bit of behavioral dissection. The flamboyant businessman is single-handedly unlocking dormant emotion and stoking frustration into activism that threatens to change us from the United States of America to the Divided […]

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Winter Movies: 22 Reviews in One Sentence Each

February 14, 2016 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

As we shovel our ways through winter into the heart of the Oscar build-up season, here are 22 film reviews, each summarized in a single sentence. Films are rated on a scale from 0 (“The Dreaded Fist of Badness”) up to a “high 5,” an outstanding film you do not want to miss. With so many good […]

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