A visit to Glacier National Park is on my short list for travel to interesting places. As I am wont to do, I am studying maps, reading guidebooks, and looking up reviews of accommodations to get a feel for the place before we arrive. One source, a used copy of Exploring Glacier National Park by …
I shudder to think about all the emotional energy I expended during those dreadful episodes of choosing sides for a baseball or football game after school. Never athletic and almost completely lacking in “the killer instinct” I was kryptonite for the unlucky team captain who got stuck with me. It didn’t take many years of …
The blogoshpere is chock full of gurus urging us to throw off the chains of industrialization, and put on our God given wings and fly. I’ll be honest. I am a fan, and Seth Godin’s latest book, The Icarus Deception is a worthy criticism of our cultural fear of flying too high. Godin points out, …
Perhaps I’m the only person in the world that dreams there really is such a thing as an overnight success, that a rich uncle will leave me a fortune (I don’t have an uncle), that I will win the lottery (without entering it). That my checkbook …
Why is promoting a professional service so challenging? For the same reasons that life is challenging. For any professional the process of developing new business involves a nearly infinite set of variables. What we do not and most likely cannot know about our prospects is mystifying, and possibly even stupefying. Even the most successful marketing …
