People really don’t know what they don’t know! Content marketing, whether a PDF white paper, a YouTube video, a SlideShare presentation or even an old-fashioned audio tape, gives you the power to tell them. Do this, and forget a bigger slice of pie...you will grow the pie itself. Read the rest of this entry »

How many of us procrastinate on something? We all do. But I say that when we procrastinate, we are lying to ourselves. When faced with a task we don't feel like doing (I sometimes even procrastinate things I actually enjoy doing once I get started...what's up with that?) at the moment, we tell ourselves that we will do it tomorrow...or next week...or right after a nap. Read the rest of this entry »

The world is a rough place. In youth sports, a lot of kids have fear of the ball. They are afraid to be vulnerable. Yet, how many of us have the same fear as adults? Read the rest of this entry »

We all know that the larger the bureaucracy, the more complex the political dynamics. This can create a culture of indecision. What can you do about it? Read the rest of this entry »

Perhaps there is no more fundamental ethical value pertinent to trustworthiness than honesty. We associate honesty with people of honor, and we admire and rely on those who are honest. But honesty is a broader concept than many may realize. While it involves both what we say and what we do, it starts with what we think. Read the rest of this entry »

How many of us have been guilty of sugar coating the truth to the point of obscurity? And whose feelings are we really trying to protect? Read the rest of this entry »

Not too long ago a friend of mine (a young and very attractive woman) told me about the shortest blind date she ever had. The man arrived at her door to pick her up, took one look at her, said he needed to run to Wal-Mart to get something and never returned. He later said in an email: "You're out of my league." Read the rest of this entry »