According to the early morning CNN show I saw in the hotel lobby this morning, it is.  Why?  Because it is National Evaluate Your Life Day. (Here’s more info) Anytime is a good time to reflect on and evaluate your life. To give you time to actually do it, I won’t attempt to persuade you

I grew up on a farm — an environment where mechanical equipment abounds and things break (often at inopportune times). Given that, having great mechanical skills and aptitudes are a great benefit to a farmer. Thankfully, my father had those skills. He was so good at the variety of skills required that I grew up

This week’s Resource Recommendation is Best Practices Are Stupid – 40 Ways to Out-Innovate the Competition by Stephen M. Shapiro. This is a book about creativity and innovation. And this is a book about organizational change. It is mostly about examining sacred cows (i.e. best practices) and recognizing that perhaps (in some cases) the best

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale had this to say about worry. “If you can worry, you can visualize success.” So let me ask you this . . . Do you ever worry? Assuming your answer is yes, since 99.44% of people worry. (Ok, so that is actually the that the purported purity of Ivory Soap –

That is an interesting title isn’t it? Does it leave you curious? Or does it leave you scanning through words in your mind, in a competitive way, trying to guess if you come up with the right one? Either way, I hope I have influenced you to read on . . . While you likely

To be a successful leader requires that you can influence other successfully — after all, you can’t control other people’s behavior or choices, only influence them — which means that influence is a critical skill for a leader. More than just for leadership, though. To be effective at nearly any endeavor in life requires cooperation