How many trees had to die?

Let me first say I know nothing about mailing or the habits of people when it comes to mail. I have no expertise in how it should be done and can only tell you what I’ve read and what I can imagine.  I got an email from a colleague  that sent me a tweet of someone who is [...]

Adversarial Partners

How do you work with conflict? Some of us are really good at it and some well suck.  It seems more and more that I’m in a constant state of conflict. This doesn’t mean that if they were about to go over a cliff i wouldn’t grab them. It does mean that I can be [...]

Body Language

What does your body language say about you. I have a couple of tells that I know of and probably 100s that I don’t.

1.  When I’m frustrated my face relaxes and I speak slower.

2. I have a forehead rub that i do when I’m done with a decision I just don’t know how to tell [...]

We all work for someone

The older you get I think the more we all realize that we work for someone.  Even if you own your own business you work for the client, the customer, the eh.  It can be some what demoralizing when you come to that realization. I work for someone.  When you work for someone your realize [...]

Meetings (persudae or defend)

I think its hard to actually get anything accomplished in a meeting. I don’t know if that’s universal. NO. I think it is. Here is what happens in a lot of meetings I’m in. Ever person has a certain agenda. We don’t always know what that agenda is. So we spend most of the time [...]

Resume Reading

So we are in the hiring process here at the old office. It’s a process I hate being in just as much as I hate having to do.  I try not to take out my aggression on applicants. They are in the same boat that I was once in….You send in your resume hoping [...]

Praise Creatives

Praising creatives. Doesn’t seem like something you should have to do…. Aren’t these the people that have so much energy and ego that they don’t need some halfhearted thank you. I’m starting to find out that they are the most in need feedback.  I think whether its positive or negative they need something.

I tried [...]

Do you call yourself creative?

I took a small break to collect myself. That’s only part of the story. The other part of the story is that I went through a pretty stressful week before that and for some reason I continued trying to keep up on my self-imposed writing frequency.  Anyway I figured I should regroup myself. Well [...]