Tag: excellence
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Don’t Be A Pac-Man!
Are you getting swallowed up? Do you remember the game Pac-Man? This is going back a bunch of years, but it was one of the first video/arcade games where the Pac-Man travelled the course swallowing up all the cookies as he goes along. Never stopping. Devouring the cookies. The cookies just go away. I used…
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Twenty Questions
One of the most common management practices is to enter the office of your report and after a few little icebreakers, begin to fire off the questions: Is the project on schedule? Have you handled the budget overrun? Were you able to engage a vendor yet? Did you fix the issue with the client? And…
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The Shifting Keys
Funny how things change. You can be so sure of something, and over time, your views can be changed to something vastly different. It’s crazy. Like shifting sand. When I was young and just entering college, I was convinced that the secret to success was knowledge. If I could just absorb a vast…
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Ambushed!
Last week I met with a woman on our team at work. This meeting was long overdue. We have been very busy lately dealing with problems and putting out fires. This was a meeting to discuss process improvement, which seems to take a back seat when you are busy doing “the work”. I had several…
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Ask the Experts!
Recently, Kathy and I were sitting on our back patio (lanai is the fancy realtor description) in the cool of the morning enjoying a hot cup of coffee and the fluorescent beauty of the morning. The birds were wide awake. We have a bird feeder and we keep it well stocked with a high quality…
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Fight The Urge!
I was invited to join a group of friends, just men, for a cookout tomorrow. I have decided to go. This sounds like an easy decision on the surface. But really it’s not that easy. My inclination would be to stay home and relax. See, I’ve had a difficult few weeks at work. Traveling, problem…
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Different Is Good!
Yesterday Kathy and I went on a hike through the Cahuita National Park along the Carribean coast of Costa Rica. We had a guide who had an amazing eye to pick out wildlife far off in the trees. The diversity of life that we saw was remarkable, yet everything fit together and you had the…
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Light the Path
I believe that there is a desire to make a difference in the world that is woven into us at birth. To make your mark- to put a “dent in the universe”. Your choice is to either follow these desires and dreams or suppress them and give up. The choice to give up is easy…
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Men: 10 Shopping Tips for Christmas!
Ah, the Christmas season has begun! A time for family, great food and gift giving! One problem: The thought of Christmas shopping makes most men cringe. I would guess that most men would do diaper duty instead of hitting the mall! Yet, we know we have to do it AND it’s coming up pretty quickly…