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A Bad Mingled Wryness - April 30, 2008


Ah, it’s Wednesday…
One-Eighty-Two-One
Four really cool numbers. Added together they equal eighty-four. Subtract the first, third and fourth number from the second and you get seventy-six. Add the first number and the second number, divide by nine and you get nine. Math is good.
180:1? That’s the pay gap between top executives […]

Where Guilt Starts… and Guile Continues to the End.


American Heritage Dictionary defines Guilt as Self-reproach for supposed inadequacy or wrongdoing.
Welcome to my world.
I recently got to see my dad for the first time in a few weeks, the traveling schedule and my responsibilities to my clients has made a quick jaunt to Cincinnati more difficult.
Not impossible mind you, but more difficult. And […]

A Bad Mingled Wryness - April 23, 2008


Oops… is it Thursday? Hey, yesterday was a travel day, Norfolk to Chicago to Indianapolis. I’m trying to come up with an anagram for Late Again on Thursday, but nothing has has piqued my interest so far. Well, like they say, better late than never, except in horse shoes and hand […]

Present but Un-accounted For


“Wage & Salary employment in State and local government is projected to increase 8% during the 2006-16 period.  Job growth will stem from the rising demand for services at the State and local levels particularly demand for public safety and health services. An increasing population and State and local government assumption of responsibility for […]

I’m No Longer Green With Envy


I just got done cutting my grass with my new push mower.  That’s right.  A push mower.  No gas motor.  No electronics.  Pure people power.  As long as a stick doesn’t get stuck in the blades, you are good to go.  Push and enjoy the quiet of the blades chomping the heads off the little […]

Either Go or There I Go


Another Amazing Anagram… and additional alliteration!!!
<help me>
Another study came out the other day talking about the importance of the employee-supervisor-co worker relationships to job satisfaction and ultimately retention. The study seemed sound, had questions that were worded pretty well, the sample size was pretty good (research phrase alert) and the conclusions were reasonable.
Employees that […]

My Wife Said the Earth Moved for 15 Seconds


made you read, didn’t I… 
Well, we celebrated our first earthquake this morning at 5.37 a.m.  My dog, and my 15 year old slept right through it.  Go Figure.
More later!

A Bad Mingled Wryness - April 17, 2008


Fine fine fine…  I know I’m a day late, however yesterday was a traveling day for me (coming here to Spartanburg to visit with my client, Advance America.  I got in yesterday late in the afternoon, and before I knew it I was sound asleep in the Hampton Inn’s wonderfully soft feather bed.  And yes, […]

The Price of DV… and the cost


I sat in an insightful and disturbing presentation yesterday morning from a colleague of mine, Stephanie Angelo (www.hressential.com) on domestic violence. Stephanie helps clients by creating or enhancing their internal domestic violence programs and processes, and yesterday morning talked about the price of domestic violence to employers, and of course the cost to the […]

Sleepy in New Mexico


Not as catchy as Sleepless in Seattle, however it’s early here, and I’m sleepy, ergo the title. Yes, I wrote “ergo”. Remember I’m a six year latin student, and it’s hard squeezing a dead language into the sentence…
Anyways…
As I wrote last week, I’m starting the next phase of my speaking tour, conducting a […]