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…

It happened to me several times last week. I found myself in the middle of a conversation that was very unproductive.  Actually, it was even worse than unproductive, it was nothing but negative as we were verbally tearing down a teammate that we all worked with.  Sitting there talking about…

Did you ever play the telephone game when you were a kid?  For those that don’t know what I’m talking about, it is when you have a group of friends sitting around in a circle, and you start the game by whispering in the ear of the person to the…

I was in a meeting several weeks ago, and part of the meeting involved bringing up ideas for new products that we are creating.  Towards the beginning of the meeting I mentioned an idea that was very unique and specific – but no one really acknowledged it and it quickly…