I’ve had a number of clients over the years that have done some significant – and often traumatic – restructuring to their organizations while I was working with them. The process was usually driven by an urgent need to reduce costs and improve productivity. While these otherwise intelligent, savvy business leaders were usually successful in [...]
I get a kick out of the graphics about Fridays and Mondays, especially the ones with cute pictures of animals (like the one at the top of this post featuring our Peaches during a bath). But there's an issue related to those images that makes me sad. Assuming you work a Monday-Friday work week, the [...]
I love it when people take the time to add some creativity and humor to life's more routine tasks—especially if the humor wasn't intentional. This post is purely for fun: pictures of signs I've seen in restrooms that made me laugh (or even just smile). The Marietta Museum of History (Marietta, GA) had some [...]
Seriously, do you know what's in your wallet? If your wallet was lost or stolen, would you know what was in it so you could promptly deal with it? You may be able to quickly identify your primary credit cards and driver's license, but think about all the things we carry with us that we [...]
Parents: Take a picture of your kids every morning. Use your cell phone’s camera to snap a picture of your kids every morning. Make it part of your standard getting-ready-for-school routine. If something should happen to your child that day (if your child gets lost, is abducted or is involved in an accident), you have an up-to-date image [...]
Are you a teacher or student? Would you know what to do in an on-campus shooting situation? Mark Gordon, chief of police at Oakland University (Rochester, MI), recently spoke to the school’s professors on how to handle and survive an active shooter. According to a report by Laurel Kraus in the Oakland Post, Gordon offered [...]
Recently I was browsing around some old files on my computer and found a message I wrote for the children’s time at church a few years ago. It’s a message that’s as important—and perhaps more important—for adults as it is for children, so I'm sharing it with you now. Be Still and Rest Who likes [...]
How do you handle other people who multitask when they should be focused on you? Years ago, back in the days when cell phones were the size and weight of bricks, an associate of mine suggested going to lunch. After we were seated, she pulled out her phone and placed it on the table. Within [...]
In these days of email, social media and texting, we probably communicate more in writing than we did a few decades ago when we had to actually speak with each other because there was no immediate alternative. At the same time, our spelling and grammar skills seem to be on the decline. Whether it’s a [...]
Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer Regenery, $27.99 hardcover Post updated Feb. 4, 2019, to include film review. This is a book about much more than abortion. It’s about racism, politics, greed, corruption, crime, a system that failed to protect innocent victims and media that chose [...]
