The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,600 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 43 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the [...]
Common sense would indicate that you do not make wine in New England. Winters are coldish. Spring is latish. Summer is shortish. Fall is pretty but unpredictable. Yet, people do. Why? the new frontier for wine pioneers For the full article, see Wine in Vermont (html), Color Magazine USA, Ed. 41, October/November 2011.
Summer brought bliss and blush. Rosé wine towered wine displays everywhere. It has been enjoyable, right? You must admit it was fun. But can you honestly admit to your friends that you prefer blush to bizarre in wine. Or, are you ashamed of it? Is rosé good or great? For the full article, see Rosé [...]
The problem for most people who want to be successful is not that they can’t do it. The main obstacle for them is that they misunderstand success. Maltbie D. Babcock said, “One of the most common mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic, something or [...]Originally posted at: John Maxwell on Leadership Cop […]
Now available on YouTube: the latest video in The Little BIG Things series. Tom presents an alternative to minimizing Things Gone Wrong. He suggests you maximize Things Gone Right. Which would you prefer to be remembered for? You can find the video in the right-hand column of this page or watch it at YouTube (time: 1 minute 57 seconds). Or, get a PDF transcr […]
Tom spoke at the World Innovation Forum in Leon, Mexico, on 24 May. The event was organized by his long-time friends, HSM. He said the audience "are my favorite people—owners and top executives of SMEs (Small and Medium-size Enterprises); they are the lifeblood of every economy." HSM World Innovation Forum, Final HSM World Innovation Forum, L […]
Part 12 of Tom's "Mother of All Presentations," or MOAP, is available now at ExcellenceNow.com. You can download the PowerPoint version or a PDF. We'll be releasing a section every other week throughout 2012. The lessons in this, the 5th "H" in Tom's "15H Theory of Everything," include servant leadership (or, lead […]
One of the best ideas I’ve heard in the last 10 years is the FedEx Day. Created by the Australian software company Atlassian, FedEx Days give people 24 hours to work on whatever they want — so long as it’s not part of their regular jobs and provided that they show what they’ve created to their [...]
As always, the mailbag of emotionally intelligent signage is brimming with examples sent by readers around the world. And as always, the most prevalent target of this new approach to sign and symbol is dangerous driving. Here are three that caught my eye: A homemade sign from a tough-minded (but not litigious) parent: An official [...]
Our next guest on Office Hours is none other than Tom Peters — the peripatetic and perspicacious co-author of In Search of Excellence and the man The Los Angeles Times called “the father of the post-modern corporation.” Join us on Monday, May 14 at 2pm, EDT, for what promises to be a terrific Office Hours [...]