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When You're In Charge...
When You're In Charge...

CTO, New Product Development, Hiring, Firing, Volunteer, Brand Manager, Historian, Cheerleader, Networker, Meeting Planner, Inspiration, Worry, Risk, Reward, Boundary Pusher, Social Media, Linchpin, Purple Cow, Child, Elder, Confused, Certain, Arrogant, Humble…

Memory Lane

Where's Your Memory Lane?
Where's Your Memory Lane?

Ever look back on your life and wonder how you got where you are today?

Do you come from humble beginnings and are self-made? Or, do you come from an established bloodline where wealth is already part of your DNA?

Recently, I overheard my wife and son (9) having a conversation about before he was born and what life was like before we had him, and even before we lived in our current home (18 years now).

Cheryl was explaining how, in our first “starter” home, we didn’t have any furniture and slept on the floor in sleeping bags for a year. We had one car and lived 30 miles from Disney, where we worked as brand new Cast Members in 1984.

Guess who got the car?

“So Daddy rode his bicycle to work every day, 30 miles, one-way, to Disney’s Contemporary Resort…”

CEO, CIO, CFO, CTO, EVP…

Pick Your Path
Pick Your Path

CEO, CIO, CFO, CTO, EVP, Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations, Technology, HR, Front Line, Customer Service, Strategist, Planner, Board of Director, Spokesperson, Legal, Accounting, Student, Ambassador, Creative Department, R&D, OD, Social Director, Succession Planner, Tribe Leader.

There, that should about cover all the stuff you are responsible for when you are a small business entrepreneur.

Any questions?

Too Much To Do?

There's A Catch To Today's Post
There's A Catch To Today's Post

We all have too much to do.  It’s part of why people say, “Life’s A Beech, And Then You Die”.

A few of us were talking the other day about how corporate American should brace itself.

Just think of it this way:  Has your past year been the very best and most rewarding one of your entire career, or somewhere close to the most challenging and difficult?