3 steps to getting that job offer

3 steps to getting that job offer

Get your attitude straight. Be very clear what you can and cannot do. Then let go of the “can’ts”.  A prospective company is only interested in what you can do for them. Don’t tell them that you have experience that you do not (never lie in an interview), but don’t...
Top 10 lessons from Lisa

Top 10 lessons from Lisa

These may sound like corporate propaganda, but it is all completely self-serving. The better your company does around you, the better you will be doing. Or the better you look to the next employer. Lesson 1 – If your first work priority is to make the company more...
We are in a crisis in corporate America today

We are in a crisis in corporate America today

  Management and employees are adversaries and both look at the customers as inconvenient. Management feels harried, employees feel unappreciated and nobody is happy. As a result profits go down, which is cheered because corporations are evil and profits are wicked....
Building your best employees with real “self-esteem”

Building your best employees with real “self-esteem”

Maybe we don’t understand this whole “self-esteem” thing. From Dr. Benjamin Spock’s Baby and Child Care to the beginnings of Nathaniel Brandon’s Self-Esteem movement of 1960 to the question of millennial entitlement, we strive to do the best for our children and their...

TEDx LATI

The folks at Lake Area Technical Institute did a great job producing their TEDx event. Here was my talk...
We Have Heroes All Around Us

We Have Heroes All Around Us

During each catastrophe we all meet face to face with thousands of heroes. The firemen of course, the police and paramedics, the medical workforce, the volunteers, the list goes on and on. Today we are constantly reminded of our wonderful military personnel and the...