Those, roughly, were the words spoken on national TV last week by Thomas Blachmann, or so I read in the paper. The program is like American Idol, and there was a group where Thomas apparently couldn’t…
I’m working on a little something that I can’t tell you much about right now, but there’s a good chance you’ll find exciting and extremely useful.
To help me find that out, if you have a small busine…
I have several friends I have referred to coaches, but who haven’t done anything about it.
These are people who are suffering from serious stress, or have issues with their boss, or other problems, w…
Most people will start with the product and the price.
Try this instead: First sell the need. Then sell yourself. Then sell the product. Only then mention the price.
Back when I was smoking, I was often afraid I would never be able to quit. I was afraid I was going to wind up some 40-something, still smoking. I spent quite some energy being afraid of never being a…
The money will come from wherever it is today.
This is from Deepak Chopra’s Creating Affluence, an otherwise frustratingly annoying display of his command of the English alphabet. But I really liked …
Adyashanti: “What Zen practice really did for me was provide the avenue through which I eventually failed. it was my avenue for failure.”
It seems like we all need to fail before we wake up and reali…
I’d heard of the one-minute manager.
But not about the 59-second employee.
(another hat tip to daddy)
Ice hotels are hotels built anew from ice and snow each year.
Here’s one in Sweden, and another one in Finland.
Check out photos on Flickr
(Hat tip to Daddy)
My dad just told me this story about a company that he consulted for. The meeting room had a punch clock, where each employee would punch in when the meeting started. The punch clock was somehow conne…
