Monthly Archives: November 2008
No Value for the Money
A few weeks ago, I watched Bill Clinton on the Daily Show discuss the current economic meltdown. His insight into this whole mess was that the demand for the mortgage-backed securities was so high that the sellers of these began … Continue reading
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How Business is Like Monty Python posts
Everything I needed to learn in business I learned in Monty Python and the Holy Grail Or The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Corporate Lunacy A few years back, a co-worker and I were reviewing project proposals for a new corporate … Continue reading
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How the Relativity of Time Applies to Corporate Settings
Many of the miscommunications and misperceptions of time in the work place occur due to relativity of time, as determined by Einstein. Unfortunately, the physics of relativity is not taught well in our school system and many people don’t understand … Continue reading
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I can’t hear you
I’ve spent about a decade of my life in training and development and probably about four decades trying to get people to listen to me or do what I say. I have to be honest. I have not been all … Continue reading
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Adult Competency Certification
Do we need to start offering a certification of competency in adults? I mean, there are some people who just can’t or don’t take responsibility for their actions and then there are the rest of us who have to suffer because of them. Adult competency certifications could bring about a whole new way of life for responsible adults. Continue reading
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