Perhaps you missed the interview Geraldo, the breathless and ALWAYS-YELLING-HIS-QUESTIONS TV reporter, had with Michael Phelps, the Olympic Champion. Geraldo: MICHAEL, YOU ARE THE MOST FANTASTIC SWIMMER EVER! HOW DOES THAT FEEL? Phelps: It feels good, I guess. I am proud of it. Geraldo: PROUD? YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME, DUDE. YOU ARE THE BEST. [...]
Ode to Toys
Posted in July 27th, 2008
Ever since he was a kid, Conrad was the smartest kid in the room, but still played well with others. He grew up with a slide rule hanging on his belt, but mostly today it’s all about programming, from T-SQL to .NET, and he applies his wide experiences to solving business problems for his clients. [...]
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Follow Up on the Farm Job.
Posted in June 11th, 2008
New technology and media fascinate me. I am laughing at myself here because I was the guy back in the 80′s who looked under the fax table to see where it really came from. And now, TIVO-ahead and now I am even blogging, mostly instead of building birdhouses or playing bridge. Anyway…. Recently, I went [...]
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My Politics and Decisions To Make, 2008. DrumRoll Please.
Posted in May 22nd, 2008
Over at US News and World Report, I dropped off a column on how a boss should handle politics in the workplace. It is dicey issue and in these days of open transparency, I am sure some will disagree with my viewpoint of keeping your political leanings to yourself. Please jump over there when you [...]
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Dear Mom a Poem
Posted in May 11th, 2008
Mother’s Day, 2008 Hey Mom, how are you? It’s been while since we talked. Been busy, sure. You are here and there, you know. So no need to formal-ize it, right? Right. Anyway, your name comes up Weird moments, times. But here and there. Nothing big, no point to make. More often than you’d think.” [...]
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Playing Well in Peoria
Posted in May 7th, 2008
The first of a sporadic series of visits to JobDig’s markets with introductions to some local bloggers. Pre-cinema, vaudeville was the entertainment venue of choice. It is where entertainers like [tag]George Burns[/tag], [tag]W.C. Fields[/tag] and [tag]Bob Hope[/tag] got their start—think dinner theater without bad chicken catchatorie. The vaudeville mecca was New York City’s [tag]Palace Theater[/tag]; [...]
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This WAS Intimidating: Being Asked to be a Guest Blogger at Brain Based Business
Posted in April 29th, 2008
Dr. Ellen Weber, PhD, asked me to write a guest blog on her wildly popular BRAIN BASED BUSINESS. More than I do normally, I actually thought about what I wanted to say, since so many non-WWDS readers would be reading me for the first time. But then I thought a second time and re considered. [...]
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Three Books, Three Days and Nights To Change Your Life
Posted in April 29th, 2008
OK, a bit dramatic. Last week, I read [tag]Dan Pink[/tag]‘s newest book, [tag]The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, the Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need[/tag], over lunch. It is a clever little book with six simple and perhaps counter-intuitive ‘learnings’ about one’s career. What is great about this book is it is usable (readable) for today’s [...]
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A Million Hits Later.
Posted in April 24th, 2008
(How to get this badge for your blog.) I am being told today that this blog just passed the million (1,000,000) hits barrier. It sounds like a lot. Hits are great, but not as good as the fact that nearly 400,000 people have read this blog. Amazing. I am humbly kicking the dirt under my [...]
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Age Of Conversation
Posted in April 21st, 2008
I’m going to be one of the contributors to the 2008 version of Age of Conversation. Last year, two marketing bloggers, Gavin Heaton and Drew McLellan “challenged bloggers around the world to contribute one page — 400 words — on the topic of “conversation.” The resulting self-published book, authored by 100 writers and thinkers, [...]
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