I’m sure you’ve reconnected with some old friends via digital media. Seems like every on-line service – LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, you name it – wants to rummage through your address book or biography to hook you back up with those folks to whom you were once connected so that no good embarrassing moment goes unremembered.
I’ve connected with some of my peeps that I’ve known since we were single digits old. People with whom I spent nearly every waking hour – in school, at college, even at old jobs. At there’s one thing I notice almost every time that we start to reengage and I think it’s something from which businesses can learn. Continue reading
Tag Archives: managing
Real Friends
Filed under digital media, Growing up, Helpful Hints
A Day Off
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
Filed under Helpful Hints, Reality checks
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


