POV

POV

Are you going back to work tomorrow? Why?

Are you going back to work tomorrow? Why?

Listen to the commentary Dear Marketplace Friend, I hope you’re enjoying some time for yourself today – with your family and friends – as the last gasps of Summer are enjoyed doing something that refreshes your body and your soul. Are you going back to work tomorrow? “Summer break” is no longer a big deal for people who have clocked-out forever (the classic American […]

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so what is your story

So, what’s your story?

Listen to the commentary Talk about “late to the party!” In the era when magazines and printed publications are on the way out, COSTCO is going against the grain: the COSTCO Connection goes out every month to 123 million members across America. Though principally a 100-page advertisement for their products, they lure readers with a

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point view july 24th

Would you pass the test?

Listen to the commentary Do you have kids?  If you’re a parent, you’ve learned a lot about life through the unavoidable assignment of shepherding them through the young-and-cute stages to the old-enough-to-know-better era when they drive you nuts and make you ponder escape strategies. If the “whose kids are these oddballs?” phase hit you where

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are these the last days?

Are these the Last Days?

Listen to the commentary What time is it? Don’t ask Phil Connors that question: for him, it really didn’t matter. In the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, Phil (played by Bill Murray) was stuck in a strange time loop, repeating the same day, continuously. If life isn’t moving toward some significant future horizon – if every

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planning horizon

What’s your planning horizon?

Listen to the commentary Allow me to import some thinking from leadership in organizational life and apply it to real life. Most people live with either a passive or reactive mindset: passivity resigns leadership to someone else, while reactivity operates with no agenda other than to operate defensively in response to uncontrolled and unforeseen circumstances.

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