Ever since becoming a Racker (woot!), my thoughts on a “successful organization” have changed dramatically. I saw the below image on LinkedIn the other day and it peaked my interest. At first glance, I was thinking that it was spot-on. Exactly what I would want in a manager/executive and, someday, hope to be myself. Perhaps Read More
Question: “Why are your responses so brief?” Answer from Seth Godin: “If I had worked less diligently on them, they would have been longer.”
Signature Strengths Personalized (and defined) I was recently asked to complete an online “strengths” assessment for a future endeavour (more on that in about a week) and I wanted to share the results as well as some insight into why this assessment was spot-on. Update (March 14, 2013): Prior to joining Rackspace, I was asked to Read More
At Home 53 lbs Kettlebell I recently responded to a reader on my preference whether to keep a gym membership or cut the cord and begin working out at home. I dropped my gym membership and my 53 lbs kettlebell had a lot to do with the easy transition to being gym-membership-free. With this kettlebell, Read More
From an IE Reader: “With MED, is it even worth my wife and I keeping our family gym membership? What do you do?” Great question and one that I wrestle with from time to time. My gym membership was only $20 per month to a very nice LA Fitness less than a mile away — Read More