Archive for the ‘ Innovation ’ Category
Our work needs to be so much more than just a way to make money; it must be about the purpose or cause we serve through our efforts at work—making other people’s lives more productive and enriching because of what we do—while that service becomes a means to providing quality choices for the things that we cherish the most[ READ MORE ]
You’ve just started learning a new skill and you think to yourself “It is really going to take me a long time to learn this.” You want to become an expert in as little time as possible, but you know you have a lot of hurdles to overcome before you can truly call yourself an [ READ MORE ]
“Now!”, thus spoke a good App to me, “Click on my icon and you shall see, treasures of knowlendge and wisdom so fine, to help you make the most of the daily grind, Excellence, you may claim, if but you will, open me up and take your fill!” App Yourself, by J. Diamond Arnold (A [ READ MORE ]
Have you ever found yourself in a situation similar to this? If so, which side of the meeting request were you on? Are you more prone to insist on an in person face-to-face meeting or are you the one questioning why the face-to-face meeting can’t be held more efficiently using a virtual meeting/video conferencing service? [ READ MORE ]
Your career is an epic journey! Or, at least, it should be—something that Homer or Isaacson would muse about over pages of poetry and prose. Unfortunately, too many careers seem to be cut adrift, floating across an open sea without direction or purpose. Too many are a flat line rather than a brilliant arc that [ READ MORE ]
The drama unfolding in the 2011 World Series of Major League Baseball is nothing short of epic. The Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals have been engaged in a week long back and forth battle that I’m sure even the Greek gods would envy. Now last nights, dramatic, Game 6, instantly known as one of [ READ MORE ]
“Out, out, brief candle…” William Shakespeare’s, Macbeth The news of Steve Jobs passing was like a hot branding iron, forged amidst the fire of creativity and ingenuity of the Silicon Valley at the turn of the 21st century. True to the brand he forged, the simple, yet elegant pose captured on the home page of [ READ MORE ]
Like it or not, the 2012 race for President of the United States is on! No matter your political point of view, there is an air of excitement (if not at least some curiosity) to see who will rise through the ranks of their party as the nominee for President. Of course, the 2012 election [ READ MORE ]
Steve Jobs is the Thomas Edison of our era! There, I said it. Now all of you Apple haters can stop reading the rest of this post and go back to texting or your version of surfing the Web in bitter disgust. Regardless, Steve Jobs is one of the most prolific visionaries of our era. [ READ MORE ]
O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world! That has such people in it! —Shakespeare‘s The Tempest, Act V, Scene I While driving down a Southern California freeway recently, my son and I observed a billboard promotion of a major league baseball team. After some debate [ READ MORE ]
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