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Recently Seth Godin posted his 5000th blog post. Well, I am no Seth Godin, not nearly as prolific and far from as talented, but my blog just passed a milestone as well! Rivers of Thought just surpassed 5,000 views! 5,000 views – those can’t all be from my mom, either! I started blogging over four […]
I could have just as easily titled this post “An Old Dog Learns ANOTHER New Trick” (“An Old Dog Goes Back to High School“), but I really have quit taking notes at conferences. Instead I have crowdsourced this task. How, you ask, did I do that? With Twitter, of course (right now everyone reading this […]
Pop! In the distance the muted sound of a single gun shot. I crouched low, waiting. Pop! Pop-pop! Pop-pop-pop-pop! In the dark corner of the alley way, I could not be sure of the direction of the gun fire. It was obvious the fight was escalating. The sound echoed, it was difficult to tell how […]
It all started on Thanksgiving day, a long, long time ago, in a beat up station wagon, somewhere on Interstate 65 and State Road 46 between Indianapolis and Nashville (Nashville, Indiana that is). My first wife, our two kids and I were heading to her mom’s place for Thanksgiving. The drive was going, well, it […]
A Guest Post by Jill Renee (Ton) Stollenwerk It was the Saturday before Christmas. Carmen and I had just collapsed on the couch in front of a roaring fire. We had just celebrated Christmas with our two-year old Grandson Braxton, our son JT, and our parents. We had “just settled down for a long winter’s […]
After posing that question, the executive I was having lunch with went on to explain he had always tried to create a family-like environment at his company. “You know, having fun, hanging out, being one of the gang.” Now he was faced with some of his staff not performing. When he tried to address it […]
The question of a good or bad boss started with a phone call from a business colleague, who also happens to be a reader of this newsletter. I had just hosted a podcast titled “Powerful Lessons from Bad Bosses” in which I interviewed John Rouda. In the episode, we traded some war stories about some […]
The story it could tell “Once upon a time then [sic] was Braxton then he save [sic] his mom from the tower and they were happy ever after the end.” The typewriter in my office was manufactured in 1927. It belonged to my mother’s mother and was purchased in the middle of the Great Depression […]
This Question Of “Should I Stay Or Should I Go” Comes Up Often A question came in this week in the form of an email from a former colleague with whom I have stayed in touch: “I would like to get together with you again for advice on where to go next. I still have […]
Could This Be Your Father As Well? I was scrolling through my LinkedIn newsfeed as I tend to do several times a day, when I saw a post. A post I can’t get out of my mind. I’m not sure what caught my attention first, probably the image. But with a glance so quick, I […]
