You Can Have a Life. Not a Work Life.

It is 7:00pm on a Thursday. I’ve been here at work since 7:00am. I’ve had one break today and that was fifteen minutes so I could each lunch. I probably won’t leave here until 8:00pm. Tomorrow, I’ll be back here at 7:30am. I’ll also work...

Shutdown for Small Business 101

If you think the government shutdown has no affect on your small business, think again. Many programs aimed towards helping small businesses are temporarily closed and that means your business could have to wait for services such as small business loans and e-verify....

Buzz Words

Recently, I found myself twice realizing that business buzz words are sometimes welcome and sometimes – not so much.  The welcoming event was when I was talking with a lean consultant and by each of us using buzz words we quickly were able to do that “get to know you...

Decisive – the Wrap Process

Chip and Dan Heath have come out with another outstanding book:  Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life.  And who doesn’t want to make better choices?  The Heath Brothers present many examples of how we, as humans, don’t often get it right.  We have...

Time Suck

“Where has the time gone?” It’s a question we have all asked ourselves dozens of times. Time suck starts in seconds and can eventually eat up hours of our day. You may not even realize when it’s happening. It’s that quick conversation you had at the water cooler...

Anger at Work

Anger at work can sometimes get the best of us. We have all come to a time in our lives when we just let it out and then come to regret it later. Holding in anger as well as bottling it up is never good either way. The best course of action is to deal with it. Here...