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At some point in your middle-management career, you’ll be given the arduous task of keeping up with how your team is performing. I won’t sugar-coat it; this is one of the most distasteful, time-intensive tasks that upper management can rain down upon you. Piles of data have to be compiled. There’s a deadline. Plus, you…
The weather will be just right to visit Wisconsin Dells, WI on April 20th. I will be presenting Uncrapify Your Life! for the Wisconsin Bankers Association. If you have never been to the Dells, you absolutely have to go. Wisconsin Dells has the best water parks in the country, bar none, and also more fudge…
I will be performing How to Get Fired! at Mercyhurst College in Erie, PA on April 14th. I love the name of this college. It alternately sounds loving and painful at the same time, and would look excellent on someone’s upper arm, perhaps surrounded by flames, but most definitely centered over a heart with a…
I am just going to assume that most of you know what you get for free. Or used to get for free. Take a moment if you need to remind yourself what those things were. Most businesses are finding new and innovative ways to charge for things you once expected to have handed to you.…
Continuing with my tour de higher education, I will be at Indiana University-Kokomo, doing How to Get Fired! Oh, and the Indiana University-Kokomo mascot is the Cougars, which is super-awesome given that one of their biggest majors is nursing, it’s 70% female, and the average student is over 25. I simply cannot think of a place…
Welcome back, students! I will be starting the summer semester at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri today, April 6th. Culver-Stockton is the smallest college I have ever heard of, with an entire school population just under 600 people. I’d imagine that rush must be pretty easy for the Greeks on campus- “Hey, guess what! You’re…
When you think of fine print, you might think of your local car dealership ads in the newspaper (you know, that roll of gray paper that used to show up on your doorstep every morning when you were a kid. It had the funnies in it…you now use it to pack things when you move.…
As we all know, the moment you step inside your place of employment, you are subject to the whims of your employer. For the most part, your employer has created ‘best practices’ to help you move through the morass of your workday as fluidly as you can. For the most part. But there is something…