Category Archives: Personal Success

10 Common Online Assessments Applied Offline

What if the metrics used online to determine the value of a person were applied to our offline interactions and relationships? The following assessments would not be uncommon: –A natural brunette who opts to dye her hair blond, and feels comfortable walking along the beach in a bikini will not fit into our corporate culture, …

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Screw Cartography

“When we get this project going, it’s gonna put this place on the map!” “It’s a problem now, but it’s going to put us on the map.” “We need to get this place on the map.” I’ve heard it all before. Sometimes from people or institutions that end up in some way, “on the map”. …

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The King’s Speech and Our Problems.

Unless you have been locked away for the last few months you have heard of the critically acclaimed movie starring Colin Firth called The King’s Speech. The film, a bona fide hit at the box office, tells the story of King George VI of the United Kingdom’s speech impediment; from the age of about five …

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My (Non) Plan for 2011

All right. In all accuracy what I am about to describe is in fact a plan. So much for my cutesy, eye catching title. But it could be considered a non-plan in more ways than one. 2010 was about a plan. I joined Twitter, and launched this blog in an effort to not only describe …

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My Legacy: A Post in Cooperation with Brazen Careerist.

Sometimes it is extraordinarily difficult to think about one’s legacy when one lives basically hand to mouth or less, as I do. One can get swallowed up in the every day and become so pre-occupied with finding a way to keep one’s head above water that the very idea of a legacy seems not only …

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