Imagine a chalkboard and long fingernails.
Now imagine long fingernails scraping that chalkboard.
Unpleasant?
Yes!
While that unpleasant feeling is rare due to today’s scarcity of chalkboards, there is another behavior that instills an equally unpleasant feeling: frequent and improper use of the word “leverage.”… Read the rest
I watched the first 2012 presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
I’m undecided which was most painful to watch: the debate itself or the snarky comments about the debate on Twitter.… Read the rest
Over the past 15 years, I’ve served on both the client and provider side of evaluations and Request For Proposals (RFPs) for emerging marketing technologies and services. These days, I spend a lot of my time on the RFP receiving end for enterprise social marketing technologies.… Read the rest
I love maritime history.
I love how ships and the sea so heavily influenced — and continue to influence — the world around us.
Maritime non-fiction reading satisfies my craving for a time when men were really men — not softies like most men today, with their smart phones, tablet computers, paper cuts, cubicles, facial lotions and pedicures.… Read the rest
In lieu of the Chick-fil-A religion uproar, which was blown far out of proportion and followed with the company’s PR chief suffering a lethal heart attack, I thought I’d share this one…
A hopeful intern candidate sent me his resume last week with a cover letter that closed with “And God Bless”.… Read the rest
