In a wondrous attempt to increase security, more and more vendors are now requiring me to choose passwords of many characters with mixed case, numbers and punctuation. My bank does one better, where I have five different question/answer combinations they ask, then once I’ve passed their quiz, they display an image that I’m supposed [...]
I just had a post go up on the Huffington Post’s 236.com humor blog. Check out my satirical article on a local business defining its roles and responsibilities.
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Marshall Goldsmith is an amazing executive coach. He has worked with several Fortune 500 CEOs and is currently a best-selling author (#1 on Amazon.com in the Leading People category). He has developed a couple of peer coaching techniques that will let you and any supportive friend coach each other to superb results. In this podcast, [...]
Chris Matthews was just commenting that Benazir Bhutto’s assassination was “a reminder of the dangerous world we all live in.”
In that moment, it struck me: we all live in a world of our own making. Oh, I don’t mean literally, though fans of The Secret may disagree. But our experience of the world is so [...]
Marshall Goldsmith is an amazing executive coach. He has worked with several Fortune 500 CEOs and is currently a best-selling author (#1 on Amazon.com in the Leading People category). He has developed a couple of peer coaching techniques that will let you and any supportive friend coach each other to superb results. In this podcast, [...]
My goodness. Now “Plaxo Pulse” wants me, and it insists on updating me daily that my friends and acquaintances added each other as friends, or poked someone, or whatever verbs Plaxo monitors. All I know is that if all these people actually picked up the phone to call each other instead of mucking around with [...]
Cool! I love having my insecurities soothed by being right. And heck, it’s just plain fun to feel right.
I wrote a blog post in 2006: http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/wells-fargo-do-record-profits-herald-disaster-16
In it, I look at publicly available figures for Wells Fargo and conclude they’re doing really dumb things. Today Forbes had a story where those really dumb things collapse in [...]
I’m extremely happy to report that my new podcast has launched! Check out:
The Get-It-Done Guy’s Quick and Dirty Tips to Work Less and Do More at http://getitdone.quickanddirtytips.com. You can subscribe via iTunes by doing this:
Start iTunes
Search the iTunes store for “Get it done guy”
Choose “Podcast” from the drop-down list of result types at the upper [...]
Is Social Networking a Tragedy of the Commons?
I’m starting to think so. They’re pretty cool. They let you share yourself and your life with your friends. You find out more about them, they find out more about you, you swap cool stuff. Life is good.
And therein lies the problem. Life is so good that [...]
Have you seen this Reuters article on how GM is suffering record losses? It’s amazing that they attribute GM’s slump to “suffering from stalling U.S. auto sales, a slumping housing market and rising oil prices.”
Gee, last time I checked, for the last twenty-frickin-seven years, American cars (and GM’s in particular) lag foreign imports in terms [...]
