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I saw a post on Linkedin today for my old job.  It’s a different title, but it’s my old job. The one they said they didn’t need back in...

Democracy Doesn't Die in Darkness—It Dies in Apathy I've been watching since January 20th. Before that, I didn't figure there was much to...

Six years ago today I earned this hat. The PCMR stands for Park City Mountain Resort and I was on day 3 of my training as an apprentice...

"There's a client service manager position. I want to post for it, and I'm hoping you can put in the good word for me." This is when I...

"It's not how good you are, it's how good you're gonna be that matters." That's a quote from one of my favorite TED talks. You can see...

My skin's a little dry from swimming every morning, so I think I'll ride up the hill to the dirt this morning to get some exercise. That...

I sat in that manager meeting in the big boardroom excited to share with my peers what I'd discovered. I thought what I had was pretty...

What does a manager do? There are as many answers to that question as there are managers. Since I can't give all those answers, I'll...

Take a look at your team. Take out 3 mental buckets. The first bucket is labeled "Engaged" the second and third are labeled "Not engaged" an

I came across come old pictures recently (you'll see some of them below). They were from when I was a kid, mostly taken in the backyard...

This week Jake Burton Carpenter died from a long-running bout with cancer. Until a few months ago, I didn't know anything about him. Even...

At my dad's retirement party at the big office where he worked in Houston, was when I thought I was a manager. I saw the environment he...

This morning I got up at 5am to train two people in Sweden. I showed them how to create online trainings that will be engaging and...

Today I came across a something I didn’t know still existed. Something I saw, a place I’d been. I guessed it would have been gone a long...

For the past two weeks I've been Stretched. Pulled. Pushed. Maxed out. Several times in the past 15 days saying, "I don't want to do this...

In the summer of 1988, I was getting ready to go to college. I had no scholarships and no one to pay my tuition, so I had a couple of...

So I was thinking about my day job. I was thinking that a lot of people seem bored there a lot of the time. Then I got to thinking about...

"I'm leading by example." That's what I heard a manager say as he excused himself for doing the work his team should be doing. But he...

Today, while on my morning walk, I heard a loud noise from behind me. It was a truck that was moving very slowly and it was very loud. I...

My kids have put up with me for a long time now. When they were little they put up with my teasing and tickling. As they got older they...