I’ve had a busy few weeks and have not been active here in a while. I’m sorry! During this period I have been busy reading and conducting Q&A sessions at two Literary Salons mostly here in my local area. The first one was on Old Mueller (the old airport) at the Wildfire Terrace Apartments in their Terrace Room. We gathered around 6:30 PM and socialized for a while and started the Reading about 7PM and afterwards shared refreshments and more…
Baby Boomers exit the workforce I don’t know if most of you realize it, but the Baby Boomers are getting out of the workforce at record rates. Just who will take these guys’ places? Are there members within your personnel with the ability to step directly into those shoes? Are they qualified to undertake this transition? Are you? Or is your management team going to have to go look for your next group of leaders? So many questions! I read…
Making a Point with a Distraction How do you keep them distracted when you are trying to make a point? You know they need the learning experience. So where do you get the media to distract them while you get your point across? All during my career in the military and manufacturing I would recognize characters in the morning comics. That’s right, the morning comics—the Funny Papers. I had several favorites: Beetle Bailey, BC, Boris & Natasha, Hagar the Horrible,…
Motivation to write Over the past several years I have been recalling and documenting my professional career and the strife, trouble and opportunities that presented themselves to me and just how I handled and learned from each of these situations. I have thoroughly enjoyed this task. It has brought back some great memories as I recalled the exacts of what actually took place during each of these adventures in leadership. Some of the events were not hard to recall at…