My measure for how interesting a client’s product or service offering is comes from my wife’s reaction to hearing about it. If after listening to my description Megan asks incredulously, “That’s a thing?” I know we’re talking about something truly niche and unusual. Think back to Mary Tyler Moore’s eponymous 1970’s television show when her character dated a guy who…
Book Review – Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson
Roundabout the time Pharrell Williams first reported he felt about as gleeful as a room without a roof, Rick Hanson released Hardwiring Happiness, his 223-page work on contentment, calm, and confidence. And while you may desire to drive a sharpened stake into the heart of that earworm of a song called “Happy,” you may very well want to check this book…
Book Review – How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying by Carol Leifer
Kramer as a US Open ball man. Elaine accusing Barney’s of having skinny mirrors. George wearing a toupee on a date… with a bald woman. You may credit Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David with these hilarious moments etched in television history and you’re not wrong if you do. The co-creators of Seinfeld are known to have shaped every episode…
Musings – Banned Words
Perhaps you’re aware that General Motors has been having issues with defective ignition switches in some of its older-model small cars. Apparently, these problems have festered long enough for the automaker’s employees to develop rather creative vocabulary to describe how the cars operated, revealed in the discovery of a 2008 training document that identifies some 68 words you shouldn’t use…
Book Review – A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
Daniel Pink rocks. All of his books are insightful and A Whole New Mind is certainly no exception. As with Drive and To Sell is Human (reviews of which can both be found in these here archives), he takes rather mundane topics – in this case, the human brain – and, withthe perfect balance of art and science, spins an entertaining read. Given how radically our…