I buy your product, and you get my money. We have a partnership, and we are working together. If I don’t like your product, ranting and raving about it, but it never comes to you, that does nothing for our partnership. If I’m using your product incorrectly, that doesn’t mean you have a bad product, that means we have a disconnect, and if not talked about, does nothing for our partnership. There is always a…
I remember being glued to this tracker for days and weeks 5 years ago. It was like watching a slow moving train in action sweeping from country to country. Although informative, it did nothing for my well-being. I write this at a time when real-time news cycles have the potential to derail our days completely with little disregard for how it affects us. We seem to have gone back to that era where a firehose…
You don’t train to become a mentor before it happens, it just happens. All the mentors I’ve had, they never took any courses to become a mentor, it just happened. People saw them doing their work and thought “I could learn a lot from them” and then they want to learning from them. Mentors aren’t born in the proverbial sense. The first time someone asks them for advice, guidance, and suggestions – they are what…
Is No Answer better than an answer? We hope it’s more akin to Schrodinger’s Cat in that there is still hope and we don’t know what we don’t know until we know it. Hope still abounds. In today’s “always on” world of having your phone everywhere, the time for Schrodinger’s Cat to exist becomes shorter and shorter than ever before. So does No Answer, in an always on world, mean something else now? Does it…
There are two sides to an offer – the Offeror and the Offeree. One who makes it and one you hope will accept it. In a given situation, you are never both (otherwise why?) The Offeror is trying to determine what they are willing to part with. The Offeree is then in the position to determine how much value they place on what is being given to them. The problem with this arrangement is that…