Data Conversion

During last soccer season, I did a series of career lessons related to how I coach soccer. I have to revisit those - and today is a good day for doing so. Actually, I found a text file that I had started with blog topic ideas. I had inadvertently moved it to another folder while cleaning up my system and it has languished for several months. It contains a few ideas from the soccer topics.

Some of you - a very few - know the inner workings and challenges of my life the past 2 years. In particular, the flood and its fallout - both financially and emotionally. Turns out, for much of 2007, I was dealing with anxiety/depression - and to some degree am still climbing out of that. As someone who is typically up - and optimistic - which I am - you don't recognize that

I've been writing songs, poems, and free-verse since I was a child. When I met Laura, that writing became more pronounced and a fairly large body of work ensued - much of it in the form of love letters. Last year, during the "Flood of '07" - those love letters were destroyed, along with most other mementos or our marriage. Fitting, since we had just separated? Not!! The loss of those letters

In The IT Career Builder's Toolkit I emphasize the importance of presentation skills as critical for dynamic career growth. I mentioned in my prior blog about incorporating a Presentation Zen like approach to my presentations. Friday's workshop went very well - and utilized a low-text, graphics for impact - not message duplication,

We had our final soccer game yesterday. This was our closest contest of the season – which in some ways surprised me. Our opponents had three girls with very good talent and a goalie who could punt the ball almost to the mid-field line – at 10 years old!! They had a defender who could, with some accuracy, put a shot on goal from almost mid-field and who was fast!! Really

A year ago I didn’t coach my daughter’s team. At the first practice, her new coach told us parents she hadn’t coached before and would love help. Another father and I offered to assist her. The next practice, she asked me what kind of drills I thought we should do. I explained that many of the girls didn’t understand the game at all – most importantly what the positions were. I explained

Oh Shut Up and Get Over It!!! or... What now/What Next?

Walk out your door - of your home or office - look to the left, look to the right, what do you see?

We want innovation. We request it; expect it! But often, fear of the inherent risks of innovation cause us to create an environment where we hinder or kill the very thing we desire. Is innovation risky?