Recently I was intrigued by an article in a Fast Company magazine. http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/136/made-to-stick-hold-the-interview.html He was talking about how we spend so much time interviewing for the right candidate. After we hire them, we determined that they are the wrong candidate, but we hired them based on the fact that they…
I have been reading recently from Creating Your Best Life by Caroline Adams Miller, MAPP and Dr. Miachael B Frisch. They reference a July 2007 article in the New England Journal of Medicine, which explores a Harvard study on weight loss. It shows that more than diet, exercise or sleep…
I had an interesting experience this week. Nancy was going to grill lamb burgers and we were out of propane. One of the benefits of our neighborhood has always been the local garage that sold propane. It used to be a British Petroleum Station. It converted to Conoco about 2-years…
You just get frustrated and it just irritates the pig. My Friend BC offered up that tidbit at a Toastmaster meeting a couple of weeks ago in talking about how many people react to change. Why is it that we react so to change? Is it because we do not…
A recent study by McCord Training, http://thecustomercollective.com/TCC/32087 reveals some interesting and powerful results. They surveyed 450 businesses to determine what was most effective in getting them to do business with people they had never done business with before. They examined cold calling, referrals, meetings and conferences and so on. What…
I was watching a Boston Legal rerun the other night with Nancy. In the scene, attorneys Jerry and Alan are realizing that they have been too busy to connect as friends. Alan laments that he never wanted to put work before friendships. Jerry replies, “Friendships are little like a backyard…
