It’s another Monday and I’m sure everyone is feverishly assaulting the work week already. I’m with you – it’s going to be busy today and the rest of the week. But maybe I did something you didn’t recently and that may make a difference in how we fare the rest of the week. Not a bad management lesson as well. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Jelly Beans
It’s Friday, so let’s start with something food-related. As you can tell from the title, today it’s jelly beans. Generally, these little balls of fun show up around Easter and sit in a dish until they get stale or melt together into an amorphous, flavored ball. However, if you worked with me over the last 20 years, you’d have found something quite different – food and today’s business thought. Continue reading
Filed under food, Helpful Hints
No Manual
Sometimes stuff breaks. Sometimes something just behaves differently and you really are at a loss as to why. Much of the time in my house that was computer-related and the girls learned early on an acronym that became the first line of defense: RTFM. Read The Freaking Manual. Much of the time, that solved the problem, whether PC-, TV-, or car-related. It’s even easier to do that today since even though we lose manuals they’re almost always available on-line. It’s sort of the same in business except when it’s not. Continue reading
Filed under Consulting, Thinking Aloud
Consult Keith 