Recently someone said to me, “If the check doesn’t get there, I am going to WIRE the money”. I just looked at them and said, “You can say that to me, but please don’t ever say WIRE to anyone else”....
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I thought I didn’t have anything to say. This week it seemed as though I had nothing to say. How could that be? I have a perspective, just a nice way of saying OPINION, on just about everything. Somehow either...
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As 2020 evolved, my words to describe the year evolved also. My words became Resilient, Re-Imagine, Re-Brand, GRIT and Pivot. Each world fit our-safer-at-home-wear-a-mask-work-from-whenever world. Now we turn to 2021. On one hand all the words still apply. We are...
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Everyone has a good story to tell – they just don’t always know it.  Often people think their story is not as good as someone else’s story. The simple truth is that it is not about the story it is what you...
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As urban legend has it, president-elect Joe Biden chose retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin for defense secretary for two reasons. It’s the second reason that I am going to talk about. When they first met 12 years ago in Iraq,...
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Blame it on the Bossa Nova was a 1963 hit single for Eydie Gorme. She didn’t want to record it, she even sang off pitch on purpose to discourage her record label from releasing it. Yet it became her most...
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Wayne Newton called me one night. I was in high school, I was home alone, and Wayne Newton called. At a horse show there is something called a rotating trophy. You win it one year and have to return it...
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I suppose there are always two ways to look at any issue. I struggle to find two ways to look at precautions for COVID.  First, I am glad to confess that I am a big fan of cancel culture. I...
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I have a small office. I am not the federal government or a large company. But I have seen first-hand how a rough transition hurts everyone. Several years ago I was interviewing for a new assistant. One candidate applied who...
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Election night is bigger than the Super Bowl and the World Series . . . maybe even if you combined them. It’s bigger because we are all apart of it. We are not spectators cheering a first down or a...
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