Casual Fridays

MIT has a great resource including free videos of presentations made at MIT by an impressive line-up of speakers. Jack Welch, Jeffrey Bezos and Carly Florina just to name a few.
I’ve known about this for a while and yet I’ve only watched one presentation video.
If these speakers were making appearances here in Tulsa, I’d […]

In his popular ‘06 TED talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes an inspiring, and entertaining, argument that we are educating the creativity out of our children.
It’s not hard to see how corporations are on creativity killing sprees as well.
Here are the top 10 signs you’re killing creativity:
1. You Preach ‘Safety First’
If you are always opting for […]

I was working on a post for last week, but wanted it to be spend more time on it. (faulty ‘perfectionistic’ thinking on my part)  I’ll post it Friday.
To make up for it, here’s an article I found on optimizing your book reading experience:
How to Get the Most Out of Your Books
I read quite a […]

I’ve loved, I’ve laughed and cried
I’ve had my fill, my share of losing
And now, as tears subside, I find it all so amusing
To think I did all that
And may I say, not in a shy way,
“Oh, no, oh, no, not me, I did it my way“
- Frank Sinatra, My Way
As popular as it is, […]

I love these 12 principles of self-leadership from Rosa Sayat Lifehacker.
This is my favorite
5. Learn to love ideas and experiments. Turn them into pilot programs that preface impulsive decisions. Everything was impossible until the first person did i

Management Impact
Wednesday, Feb 28th 2007
BMA Tulsa Luncheon (11:30 -1:00)

Jack Hayhow of Opus Communications
Focusing on the four key activities of all great managers, Jack will show how great managers provide employees what they need to increase productivity and profit.
Jack and his book, Wisdom of the Flying Pig, were featured on Brand Autopsy exactly one year ago […]

We’re on the lookout for wolves.
You know… back-stabbers, saboteurs, spies and just plain evil-doers.
We suspect they’re among us. The wolf in sheep’s clothing.
But there’s something much more dangerous in our midst, also masquerading as sheep.
This “silent killer” of companies is much harder to find than the wolf. He wears the disguise well, even […]

You’ve probably heard of the prodigal son, and you probably also know it originates from a story Jesus told. (you can read it here)
What you probably don’t think about is how it relates to your company.
Oh boy, does it.
Here are lessons from this story that we can apply to business today:
1. The son wanted instant […]

Earlier this week I mentioned this was possibly Seth’s most important post.
Why do I say that?  Because as a society, we allow others to define success.  So we end up striving hard and sacrificing much in order to acheive someone else’s definition of success.  Living for too little a goal.
My take on life is we […]

Seth has written what I think is his most important post ever.
How do we define success? Usually by others’ expectations.
More to come on Friday.
(More from me at least. My expectations don’t set Seth’s schedule.)