I had diabetes as well as high blood pressure and cholesterol. Let me stress the key word in the previous sentence, “had.” Managing the business of you involves ensuring we have resources to do what we need to do with our limited time, energy and attention in this life time. A key resource is obviously… Read More
Time to Evolve
Adopting network thinking evolves not only ourselves but all of our interactions at work and home. Read More
Meta Data Brokers In Our Pockets
My writing has tapered off. For those who enjoy these posts, I apologize. Life comes and goes with every day and our focus changes based on our present needs. Recently, I’ve been focusing on letting shit go. There’s so much to wrap ourselves up with from the holidays, muling over future job opportunities versus present… Read More
Evolving Ourselves
Since the cognitive revolution 70,000 years ago, we have been changing our behavior and social patterns faster than our DNA is able to change. The cognitive revolution, according to Yuval Noah Harari, enabled humankind to imagine realities other than the perceived reality of the ground we walk on, the sky we look up to, or… Read More
Inner Democracy
Do you have a boy king in your life? I do. He knows what to do even before he knows how to do what he wants. He’s confident he can do anything not asking for help from his sister, parents or teachers. He goes off and creates things to show us, taking an inordinate amount… Read More
Managing Our Aging
Physical change is present throughout our lives and it’s up to us to manage it. Our bodies grow and mature into our twenties and thirties. In our thirties and forties our bodies begin to show signs of wear and tear depending what we did in prior years. In our fifties and sixties we can get… Read More
Soap Operas and Beer
The family went to Ridgway last weekend. We stayed at a hotel and met a most patient friendly hotel manager but the name of Patti. She put our 5-year-old to work helping set up evening drinks for the hotel guests. We got to talking and she mentioned how she came to her current position via… Read More
Biz We Love
“To business that we love we rise betime, and go to’t with delight.” William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra betime: Middle English “to happen” intransitive verb, to occur What do you love that get’s you out of bed and has you going to it with delight? Perhaps its time to focus on that aspect of your… Read More
Managing Your Biz is Power
There’s a good Forbes article I came across today relating we are the CEOs of our own lives. It goes on to talk about dealing with people who have (or think they have) power. You can build it or borrow it. You can look for power outside or within. Managing the business of you over… Read More
Managing Constraints
Keeping things flowing amidst a myriad of constraints is the essence of management. This is true for a mid-level manager in an aerospace company, a line supervisor, a restaurant chef or us as individuals. We are faced with requirements, constraints and expectations all the time. Finding a way to meet a goal or bring about… Read More
Business of You 