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Want or Need?

I was searching through some of the posts I have made on LinkedIn recently… I wasn’t really looking for anything in particular, but I was noticing the trends in traffic. What I deduced from them is that most of us are guilty of looking for the information and guidance that we want… We are also […]

Are you a change agent?

An old Peter Drucker question was something like “Is your organization a change agent?" If he were still alive today, I think he would probably change that question to "Are you a change agent?” More and more, as we have the means of production between our ears and on laptops and mobile devices, we don’t […]

What is change?

To effectively manage the idea that constant change should be a part of your personal and professional development, we need to first define what change is and what it looks like… This isn’t some dictionary definition of change…far from it. What I mean by defining change and what it looks like is that I want […]

What Can You Do?

The least costly solution to most problems is to focus on how you can change a situation. I bring this up because I was speaking with Patricia Callan from the SFA in Ireland about some of the challenges facing Irish small and medium sized business in Ireland. She told me that “upskilling” as its called in […]

Personal Development

When I go around speaking and meeting with business leaders and executives, I hear the term “personal development” thrown around with increasing frequency. I’ve been a fan for as long as I can remember, but I know that sometimes people have a hard time deciding what’s a good use of time and what isn’t in […]

6 Questions on Perseverance with Paul Jun

This is the first in my series of 6 question interviews with people that I admire, work with or think that they have an interesting perspective on a topic that I want to explore more. The first person I am going present is Paul Jun. He writes a blog called Junhax. I first found Paul’s […]

February 27, 2017
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As I have pretty much stated in every post this year, I am using three words to guide me in 2011. Those words are reinvention, challenge, and excel. For me, the key word that will drive all the others is reinvention. I think if you are reinventing yourself, you are giving yourself a new […]