Job Creation is a Powerful Influence
I’m an active user of Amazon, so I’m not in the hater’s club. These folks in a small town in England aren’t either … with a reminder that job creation is a powerful influence.
These provocative quotes are worth considering.
Sometimes, there are just too many quotes to pick one. This week, I’m sharing several of them with you. Each of them is provocative, so take a moment to consider their meaning for your life, particularly in the workplace. Winston Churchill Navy SEALS Andy Stanley Winston Churchill Winston Churchill practiced…
First Four TV Options: Limited Series
Last week, I shared with you the “final” six of my favorite “regular series” that I watched in 2021. This week I have the First Four of the “Limited Series” programs that appeared in 2021. While all of them were introduced as a limited series, two of them have already been…
Is 90% of Everything CRAP?
Marc Andreessen, general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, speaks at a technology conference in San Francisco, June 14, 2016. Each week, we’ll ask a question to get your best idea on a particular topic. The following week we’ll share your best tips. This Week’s Question: Is 90% of everything crap?Sturgeon’s Law as…
This Literature Clock is pretty cool.
What a clever idea! When you visit the literature clock, it takes note of your local time, then delivers a passage from literature that matches the time. When I added this to Sword Tips a few days ago, it was 5:45pm and I received the following excerpt from Rabbit Is Rich by John…
Accountability. What Does It Really Mean?
This quote, among the many in best-selling The Oz Principle by Craig Hickman, Tom Smith, and Roger Connors, hits the nail on the head: “The majority of people in organizations today, when confronted with poor performance or unsatisfactory results, immediately begin to formulate excuses, rationalizations, and arguments for why they cannot be…
You’ve probably heard someone shout this somwhere ….
Hooah is the phonetic spelling of the military acronym HUA, which stands for “Heard. Understood. Acknowledged.” It’s a word particularly favored by U.S. Army Rangers but heard widely throughout the military. When a Ranger is told to march, to fight, to take action—the response is: Hooah!