I woke up this morning with a tickle in my throat that has developed into a painful sore throat. This is a familiar beginning of a cold or flu will likely hit me full force tomorrow… Today is the Sunday of my Thanksgiving break and impending sickness must be my punishment for enjoying four peaceful [...]
“I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”
Jonathan Winters
In a lot of my executive coaching we discuss performance, effectiveness and success. Some executives perceive they are wildly successful using only a narrow way of defining their life–with work being the most important factor despite having poor health, broken family relationships and a [...]
Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about taking care of yourself, deciding when [...]
From the week of November 23.
Talk of Exclusive News Corp – Bing Deal Continue
Stories continue of Rupert Murdoch’s threat to remove its publications – including the Wall Street Journal – from Google’s search and news pages and provide them exclusively to Bing, which is willing to pay for it. That’s one way for Bing to [...]
Giving Thanks
It’s Thanksgiving week here in the US and like most Americans I’m thinking about all the things I’m thankful for. Naturally, the first things that pop to mind feature my family and friends. But there are a few marketing and business-related subjects for which I am genuinely happy. May not something I’d share with [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: 5 Traps of Performance Measurement
Competencies: performance management, performance appraisal
Who benefits: executives, managers, hr professionals
Consultant Usage: extremely important for consultants working on issues of organizational development, organizational design, employee performance, performance measurements
What’s it about? Oh how I love to rant against performance appraisals. Give me any excuse and I am off [...]
I was wrong!
Last week I wrote that you needn’t worry about signing up for the RSS feed at our new blog on Clicks ‘n Conversions. I’d been told all subscriptions would be automatically moved from Tatum Marketing to Clicks ‘n Conversions.
Seems I was wrong and you DO need to sign up. Please go to the [...]
When it comes to thankfulness, I am my mother’s child. She taught me to begin every prayer with thanks. I follow her example to write at least three thank you notes every day.
Now scientists are telling us that mom may have been on to something. Dr. Robert Emmons, from UC Davis, and his colleague Michael [...]
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”
Babatunde Olatunji
I’ve often been criticized as “speaking” to our seeing eye dog puppy in training as if he truly understands what I am telling him (I guess it is the psychologist in me). I’ve learned that [...]
Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about finding your way in a tough [...]