Beware of the Shiny Toy; Why Your Strategy Stinks

Each morning that I’m in town I spend precious time with my elementary aged son during the daily processional known as “getting ready for school”. And to be sure, it is not a perfect process.  Some days are over run with a struggle to get out of bed, to eat a healthy breakfast, to have

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Beware of the Shiny Toy; Why Your Strategy Stinks

How to be Better … Self-Improvement Done Right

Well done is better than well said.~ Benjamin Franklin The prospect of being better through self-improvement at something is easy to say.  Actually being better at something though is part art and part science. Let’s review a little adult learning theory. Andragogy is a concept popularized by Malcolm Knowles in his 1970 book, The Modern Practice of Adult Education.

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How to be Better … Self-Improvement Done Right

“It’ll Work Out” Plus 4 Other Lies People Tell

Have you worked with or for folks that like to use that saying?  I have too … and in nearly every case it means this:  “someone else will actually do the work while I say it’ll work out … and I’ll be proven right, again”. Here’s the truth folks, it NEVER ‘just works out’.  Not ever.   Someone, somewhere

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“It’ll Work Out” Plus 4 Other Lies People Tell