Too many people waste their time straining to do things that aren’t right for them. Too many managers ask the wrong people to do the wrong job– the job that isn’t a good fit. Too many companies focus on doing business outside their core competency. How do you solve this [...]

Is it ever ok to break the rules? Here’s a case to consider. In this mornings soccer game Caleb was playing goalkeeper and a player on his team had the ball and was under pressure about three feet away from him. The player passed the ball back to Caleb (who [...]

Someone told me today, “No self-respecting salesperson takes no for an answer.” If you know me then you know I am not a salesperson, but this old adage clearly strikes me as off-balance. When a good salesperson won’t take no for answer they end up getting hung-up on, ignored or [...]

I’m not an expert in polling research methodology at all, but I’ve recognize a couple flaws in the polls we constantly see touted in front of us. Sampling methods are flawed and don’t pull from a complete census. Tracking polls work for following trends, but not to predict what’s going [...]

It’s about that time in the Presidential election cycle for the media polls to start meaning absolutely nothing.  This always happens right about the same time the media really starts hyping the spread between the candidates in the poll. There are two issues with looking at nationwide polling data. First, [...]

I’m not into virtual games and virtual worlds, but I’ve ran across a couple of stories in the news the past few days where a crime was created in a virtual world (like Second Life) and then people were charged by the real police for a crime in the real [...]

Even though I am rarely posting on this blog now, I have switched it over to a WordPress blog. WordPress is a great blogging platform and is a great choice for a CMS for smaller sites. I’ve used it on several sites over the last couple of of years. I’m [...]