I received a bill yesterday from the folks at Exxon/Mobil. It’s my regular monthly credit card bill except this one wasn’t so regular since the $50 bill also had a $35 fee appended to it because apparently the payment got there a day late. OK, so maybe I should have told the bank to send them the money a day earlier but I didn’t and, frankly, the business lesson isn’t about the bank and electronic payment. Continue reading
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Learning to Ride
- Image by richardmasoner via Flickr
I’ve taught a couple of children how to ride a bicycle. Maybe you have as well or maybe you can remember learning to ride yourself. It’s a pretty complex thing – balance, speed, and a bunch of other things have to be dealt with if we’re going to avoid the trip to the medicine cabinet. It’s really about courage at first – can I DO this – and then about trust after you make that first long run yourself (OK, it’s sort of about stopping during that first run!). Continue reading
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Talk To Me
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When you’re having a conversation with your friends, do you try to sell them your latest MLM scheme? When you start up a discussion at a dinner party about the economy, is their response usually about how to position your portfolio for success NOW? I didn’t think so. So why do you, or anyone else, think that this is totally acceptable behavior in conversational media? Continue reading
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Consult Keith 