Month: January 2015

The Super Bowl of C students: How the elite got beat for gridiron glory

.Reading time 5 minutes.

  The Super Bowl is the pinnacle. It is the crowning achievement of the greatest athletes in the world, a capstone that brings the best and brightest to the biggest. Or does it? You’d expect the game to be the culmination of a journey, one that began with the best of the best high school […]

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SUPER BUST: Nine reasons to shut off the TV & reclaim Super Sunday

.Reading time 6 minutes.

Successful people learn to say no.  They recognize their time is a finite commodity and invest it accordingly.   The worst Super Bowl matchup in history presents a great opportunity for you to follow their lead. Nine reasons these teams and this league don’t deserve your support. The Seahawks are patent trolls Not since Al Gore bragged about […]

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Answering Critics with Grace: MLK’s Lessons from Birmingham

.Reading time 2 minutes.

In 2015, everyone wants the index card version of everything. We don’t have time for the full story; we desire only the broad strokes, preferably 140 characters at a time.  Long form is considered anything over two pages, and it better contain an infographic and an executive summary.   We consume and quickly move on to […]

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Hijacking your Annual Review

.Reading time 6 minutes.

It’s a new year and that can mean only one thing.  It’s annual review time at work; the one and only time that Corporate America gets introspective. Kind of… The familiar process involves employees completing self-evaluations and sending them to their managers who use those insights and other feedback to write up a formal review […]

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