My purple bracelets from A Complaint Free World. arrived today. Darn.
They’re based on the simple idea that it takes 21 days to break a habit. You wear one, and decide to change the habit. If you relapse, you switch the bracelet to the other wrist and begin again. After you’ve gone 21 days without switching [...]
Last night at my birthday party, a friend told me how his company insists he show up at work before 9 to make sure everyone’s productive. It seems we’re always trying to increase productivity. But this isn’t sustainable.
You see, productivity has its limits. Period. A woman can’t have a baby in six months by trying [...]
I’ve written before on taking responsibility for your actions. It’s also key to take responsibility for your REactions.
The flap over Imus’s racial slur is amazing. Yes, he used a phrase that was offensive. But what’s amazing is the incredible, over-the-top display of utter hypocrisy and self-deprecation that’s come from everyone else involved in the controversy.
We [...]
I’ve been at a conference these last couple of weeks and am here for yet another week before returning to the relative sanity of my office. Meanwhile, a friend pointed me at this gem:
http://indexed.blogspot.com/2007/02/relatively.html
Keeping up with the Joneses. Illustrated perfectly.
Keep in mind that you get to choose whether or not to live in that world…
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At a recent physical exam, my weight was a tad above what I want it to be (probably all muscle, but you can never be too sure). So I went web surfing a bit about weight gain trends and found an article proclaiming that obesity is becoming a world-wide problem. It seems the availability of [...]
As I write this, oil prices topped $78. In January of 2005, gas was selling for around $1.75/gallon. Now, it’s over $3.
For any business that depends on transportation or petroleum, we just doubled that line item.
Are you assuming this is a temporary spike, and ignoring it? Are you factoring this into your long-term planning? How [...]
I just finished Make Your Own Luck by Eileen Shapiro and Howard Stevenson. What a great book!
My background is in engineering and science, then business. As an engineer, I really liked that there’s a “right answer.” Or at least, there are clear wrong answers (the bridge will collapse if we make it out of tissue [...]
My recent Harvard Business School Working Knowledge column discussed how we’re trapped inside our beliefs. It even got mentioned on the Boston Globe BLOG. I say that “thinking outside the box” means thinking outside your beliefs.
But this is just darned hard to do! It’s not natural to sit around analyzing yourself to figure out what [...]
Yes, I confess. I did the whole “undead” thing last week at the Cambridge Zombie March.
The Zombie March is just what it sounds like. A couple of hundred people dressed up as zombies and shambled a couple of miles across the city of Cambridge.
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