When they do not want something or they are trying to make a point why do people feel a need to sometimes be rude, nasty and downright offensive? A point in case happened at the weekend, my wife was away and I was on Daddy duty so I took my two kids to Niagara Falls for the day – my son had seen the aviary earlier in the year and… Read More »I Hate My Job!
I just received another spam posting on by blog – as if I do not get enough in my In Box each day I am starting to get my blog spammed also – why do these people think that I am actually interested in any of their offers? It starts to amke you wonder – Seth Godin reported quite a while ago about getting 99 spam messages out of 100… Read More »Is E-commerce Slowly Going to Die?
I used to subscribe to MarketingPower.com the e-zine of the American Marketing Association, but found that the newsletter was too long and much of the news was duplicated from other sources or not relevant to what I wanted to read – so I unsubscribed. Four months later I am still trying to unsubscribe! If the AMA can't even get the basic concepts of e-marketing right – what hope is there… Read More »If the AMA can’t get it right……
Usually I do not take much notice of these types of e-mail, but happened to do this and a lot of what they say at the end was relevant – anyone know how that is the case? Perhaps its a good example of being able to influence an outcome through strategically asked questions and comments. Let me know what you think! AMAZINGLY ACCURATE… Read More »Chinese Horoscope
I made the move recently to VOIP (voice over internet) telephone and have been monitoring the results and quality – overall it seems to be as good as my current service with Bell. So I made the decision to switch my high-speed internet access for home to a lighter version and run VOIP for home too, as well as cancel an additional telephone line that has become a little redundant.… Read More »Ma Bell’s Demise Continues
The Toronto Sun interview is now available on line http://www.canoe.ca/CareerConnection/home.html as is my previous interview with the Globe & Mail earlier this year http://www.workopolis.ca/servlet/Content/fasttrack/20050205/RCOACH05?section=HomePage
I was really pleased to be included in an article that appeared in todays Career Connection section of The Toronto Sun entitled "Professional Coaches at the Top of Their Game" – which was a well written article covering the development of coaching and what to expect. Hopefully it will continue to raise the awreness of the general public toward coaching and mentoring.
I am really looking forward to next week, it is the time for my annual planning retreat where I go away for a few days and develop my 3 year vision and plan my calendar, budget and ideas for next year. These thoughts have been buzzing around in my head now for a few weeks as I know the retreat days are approaching, that is the great thing about planning… Read More »Time To Retreat
Since the weekend I have been a little bit 'hit for six' as we cricketers would say. On Saturday night I went to emergency to get a painful foot looked at and left 10 hours later loaded up with antibiotics and a warning that I had a limb threatening leg infection! Needless to say it was my fault because I should have seen the Dr earlier in the week. I… Read More »Wake Up Call
This weekend saw two politicians thousands of miles apart in the in the news who are recognised for one thing – believing their values and standing up for them to the point of resignation. Robin Cooke (who died this weekend) may go down in history as arguably the greatest English politician never to have been Prime Minister – he resigned from the government on the eve of the UK's war… Read More »Do You Value Your Values?