by lewsauder | Feb 13, 2012 | Career Management
I didn’t get a chance to get to that. I’m so busy, it’s on my list, I’m just buried in work. I didn’t see that email in my overflowing inbox. When did you send it? These are just variations of “too busy” excuses (or non-excuses) that we all hear on a regular basis....
by lewsauder | Feb 6, 2012 | Career Management
I’m an avid reader of business books. This started back in college, when I read the classic In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman. Since then, I’ve taken the occasional detour through fiction via John Grisham, Dan Brown and the like, but business...
by lewsauder | Jan 23, 2012 | Career Management
We often hear that the only thing that stays constant is change. But if that’s so, why are people so averse to change? Just listen to the nervous gossip that begins to swirl around when a group gets a new boss or some other leadership change occurs within a company....
by lewsauder | Jan 18, 2012 | Career Management
An article in the New York Times from July of 2011 entitled “Can a Playground Be Too Safe?” discusses the trend over the past few decades of making playgrounds safer. By reducing the height of sliding boards and monkey bars and replacing the old pavement...
by lewsauder | Dec 12, 2011 | Career Management
I grew up attending a small school district which was the consolidation of two small towns. What is nowadays called middle school was called junior high school back then. The junior high was in Benson, a small town about eight miles away from my hometown. Every once...
by lewsauder | Dec 5, 2011 | Career Management
Prior to the 1982 baseball season, the Philadelphia Phillies traded their shortstop Larry Bowa to the Chicago Cubs for shortstop Ivan DeJesus. To sweeten the deal, the Phillies threw in a rookie 3rd baseman named Ryne Sandberg into the deal. After the Cubs moved...
