Email & Baseball Bats
Email is both the best and worst tool used by office professionals. Love or hate it, it’s safe to say its here to stay; and therefore its a skill that…
Email is both the best and worst tool used by office professionals. Love or hate it, it’s safe to say its here to stay; and therefore its a skill that…
You don’t need to know anything about Nascar or the Grand Prix to be able to visualize a racing pit-stop. The break-neck speed and surgical precision makes them addicting to…
Empathy is one of the many buzz words that have gone ablaze in the last decade; its gone viral. If you are a champion of compassion, prescribe to the sentiments…
Work is not about work. Work is about who you become along the way. Like sharpening a knife, it's not about the sharpening, it's about what the knife becomes afterwards.…
It's that time of year again; the season of pumpkins, ghosts, and skeletons. Historically speaking: “Halloween is believed to have pagan roots, and is linked to the Celtic festival Samhain,…
Active Listening is one of the purest forms of Empathy. Many people like the idea of empathy, but most struggle to implement it. This hurts our relationships (professionally and personally)…
In the dark and treacherous times of slavery, African Americans sought freedom through the Underground Railroad. They learned to follow the “Drinking Gourd”, a term for the Big Dipper constellation,…
Reynolds number helps engineers understand how liquids or gases move. It helps figure out if the flow is smooth or turbulent. It turns out this provides a juicy metaphor for…
Aldo Leopol (1887-1948) was an American writer, philosopher, naturalist, ecologist, conservationist, and environmentalist, and he once said: “Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped…
You are in a championship game; it’s over-time and sudden death. The referee makes a bad call leading to a penalty shot; you lose. You have a choice: 1. Blame the…