Month: September 2015

The Longest Yard: From Good to Great

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We live in an era where performance evaluations and development plans are anything but real. Particularly in corporate America, authentic feedback and evaluation are rarely sought and even less frequently delivered.   It is far easier to maintain the status quo, celebrate successes and gloss over opportunities to get better.  This is even more pronounced the […]

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The Evolution of the Snark Economy

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Finally it is here.  You’ll soon be able to sass people with a single click. Sort of. Facebook, desperate for headlines and bowing to public demand will be adding a “dislike” button to their popular social networking app. Mark Zuckerberg claims the button will allow users to “like” things that they relate to but don’t […]

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Out to Get Us: Proof Goodell Hates the Vikings

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Criticism of our elected leaders typically vacillates between two themes.  At times they are framed as completely incompetent, others as evil geniuses with a master plan.  Conventional wisdom says they can’t be both, but how can you tell if it is either? Luckily one leader is not nearly as hard to understand.  For NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, […]

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Miley, Adrian Peterson & Chinese Wisdom

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Miley Cyrus is at it again, gaining attention the same way she always has– by any means necessary. This time she’s exposing herself and smoking cannabis while appearing on MTV (yes it’s still a network).  Her rote antics failing to incense anyone anymore so she’ll no doubt move on to worse, dragging chronic enabler MTV […]

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