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I just picked up Michael Gerber’s “E Myth Mastery”.  This book has been around awhile since it was published in 2006 but still very relevant.  Gerber has a few books in the E Myth vein but up to this point I was only familiar with his first. If you are or have ever aspired to become [...]

Instead of keeping up with this blog as much as I should have, I’ve spent the last year writing a book.  Rather than writing a book on being a Christian Manager, like I should have, I wrote a book about the years of 2007 – 2009 of my life, and it’s, at least in my [...]

Instead of keeping up with this blog as much as I should have, I’ve spent the last year writing a book.  Rather than writing a book on being a Christian Manager, like I should have, I wrote a book about the years of 2007 – 2009 of my life, and it’s, at least in my [...]

            John Kotter’s “Our Iceberg is Melting” is an easy to read fable about a colony of penguins facing a life or death change.  This colony of penguins must find a new home before their current home breaks apart.  Faced with skepticism and outright opposition, the forward thinking penguins are able to convince the group [...]

            John Kotter’s “Our Iceberg is Melting” is an easy to read fable about a colony of penguins facing a life or death change.  This colony of penguins must find a new home before their current home breaks apart.  Faced with skepticism and outright opposition, the forward thinking penguins are able to convince the group [...]

            The advent of online education has created more choices than ever before for continuing or completing your education.  Depending on where you live, you may have the option of completing your entire degree in the classroom, on the web or with a combination of the two.  However, whether you have some college behind your [...]

            Self-efficacy is defined as a person’s belief in their own competence.  Some might define it as an “I can” or “can do” attitude. People who lack self-efficacy do not set and achieve goals because they do not feel competent in their abilities to achieve those goals, lofty or small.  The result of a lack [...]

When I’m not at my day job, I teach for two local colleges.  One of the classes I teach is Introduction to Computer Literacy.   In this class I cover terminology and operating systems and then get to the good stuff, using business applications, specifically Microsoft Office. To keep my students awake during the otherwise dry terminology portion [...]

As the director of a small vocational school where the typical student is a female nearing the age of fifty and recently displaced from long term employment, I have had a cursory awareness of the detrimental psychological effects being laid off can have on older workers for some time.  The first sentence of the mission [...]

            We all have preferred personality traits and behavioral tendencies and like it or not, they are an important aspect in our ability to manage and lead.  Like our emotions, our preferred behavioral traits can exhibit themselves in two, almost completely opposite directions.  While emotions are often dichotomous, it may not be as easy to [...]