Blog Archives - Ocean Palmer

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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