There are few things that scream out “amateur hour” more than showing up for a meeting or event dressed the wrong way. To many people, it says “you’re not important enough to deserve my looking the part.” To others it says, “I haven’t taken the time to understand the culture of your organization and/or industry, so I am out of …
The Celebrity CEO
A portion of “our” most formative adult years occurred during the dot-com area. Wow, those were strange times. They were years with big stock market multiples; and they were years full of ill-conceived internet company business plans (yes, many of them were just that) that even attracted private and public market capital. Talk about the wild, wild west. Even grandma’s …
The Crossword Puzzle
One member of our team loves attempting to solve crossword puzzles, particularly during travel as a way to “work” on something other than work. Unfortunately those crossword puzzles don’t always love him back. Seemingly every time a puzzle is attempted, it ends unsatisfyingly unfinished in one way or another. So at the end of a long flight as the plane …