I’ll never forget the time when I was working for someone that was known as “The Hammer”.  Now, this person is a very caring, deeply devoted man, who absolutely loves his family (I witnessed this firsthand).  Sometimes though his emotions would get the best of him and we would see what…

How thankful are you? I mean –  how thankful are you – really? Gratitude has come to the forefront for me recently since I had my cataract eye surgery and my vision has been restored.   As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, I didn’t realize how bad my eyesight…

The organization I work for is big.  There are over 1,000 people alone in our home office where I work.  Now I’m sure some of you work in organizations that are bigger, and of course some that are smaller, but the point here is most of us work in a…

Back in May, I went to the eye doctor for my annual check up.  I have not been seeing clearly as of late so I was looking forward to the doctor updating my eyeglasses prescription so that things would be better.  Well, instead of updating my prescription he told me…

This week my meetings revolved around one customer. This customer took up 90% of the discussions, planning, and dialog.  This customer not only affected our decisions about how we will build products but at what price they will be and when they will be released.  This entire dialog in turn…

Yesterday should have been a great day for me.  Everyone was feeling good health wise, the sun was shining brightly with no rain in sight, we all were home, Devon and I were working on a home project together, the kids ended up each having a friend come over and…

Lately things have been pretty busy for me at work.  There have been lots of projects that needed to be completed,  “strategic planning” sessions, meetings (and more meetings), along with managing people and others expectations. How is it going for you at work these days? Are you struggling to get…

Some changes happened internally at our organization last week.  Not big changes, like lots of job losses or huge cuts, just some responsibility changes for particular people in certain departments that I work with.  It happened swiftly and respectfully, but it happened nevertheless.  Whenever change happens, no matter how big…

I spent the last week out of town at a conference, working at our booth and helping explain our products to everyone that came by.  The hours were long that we had to be at our booth – we had to arrive before 8a and work until 9p. One morning…

Last week I had to review a report with several others in my department.  I spent a good amount of time on it and was fairly invested in the work that I had done.  When we all sat down to review it, several of my peers had some suggestions as…