August 30th, 2010

Because Good Help is Hard to Find

In a life just before this one, I ran the marketing and communication for a local non-profit with super-star aspirations.  In non-profit, titles don’t mean a damn thing unless you are the executive director or a young, rich board member fulfilling daddy’s trust fund wishes.  It was a hard job emotionally, but physically it was [...]

August 19th, 2010

I Go Down. A Lot.

So, its confessional time.  This is something I generally don’t like to talk about and I certainly don’t like to do.  But it’s a reality.  My reality.  And as much as I try to change things, it still seems to happen.  I go down.  A lot.  And I’ve got to tell you that in the [...]

November 8th, 2009

Lessons for Corporate America – If you want a real success story, read about a stripper. Because the best word to describe strippers is inspirational. Actually, it’s probably naked, but it should be inspirational.

I am standing at the airport with some colleagues waiting for a much delayed flight to attend a company Kool-Aid drinkathon.  One of the people is less of a colleague and more of an asshole.  I have quietly dubbed him Big Papa in the least affectionate way possible.  And by quietly, I mean that everyone [...]