End of an Era
I hate having to meet hard deadlines when I’m sick. I am in a busy period as well, two client events in a month, punctuated by a trip to England to attend my last grandparent’s funeral. Attending the client events is a sign of success, so I am really pleased to be busy, but a […]
Here we go again
As I mentioned before, the current downturn or ‘recession’ hasn’t affected my business, in fact my business has increased over last year. Except for companies ‘high in the pipeline’ perhaps, ie that don’t have immediate needs, I am seeing a fruitful landscape. What I am seeing however is that discretionary spending and travel is being […]
Retaining the old, bringing the new
I guess I am getting old, as I am starting to appreciate stuff from the past much more than I used to. The ‘new me’ flys into a place for a couple of days and then back to the office immediately(the ‘old’ me in my corporate job would be in a location for a week […]
Getting closer to customers
In my business I am constantly reminded that it’s good to be in the position of the customer occasionally. Why do I bring this up? Well for one I currently have a short term project helping one of my customers get conference attendees to an event coming up. How pleasant is to get my call […]
Summer turns to fall
Wow, it’s been so busy in the past month, I’ve barely had a chance to breathe! I learned long ago in the events business, that you can be busy in the dog days of summer or in Christmas, depending upon when your client’s event is on the calendar. The most interesting things I’ve heard in […]
Deconstructing Authenticity
I continue to go through the book Authenticity. In the latest chapter, we learn how to assess your our business, by establishing values and how we measure up against them, specifically how you state your identity which is made up of 5 aspects: 1) The Essence of Enterprise: Who you are at your core 2) […]
The dog days of summer
I live in the Boston area, where it has been muggy for the last six weeks, like the Deep South. When you work from a home office like I do, those days it’s hot means that even I wish for a return to the corporate climate-controlled environment… Busy has never been better though, despite the […]
The Real/Fake Reality
As I am further led down the path that is Authenticity, I am led to understand a number of things I knew but could not delineate properly. The first of those comes from Hamlet, as Polonius says to his son Laertes: This above all-to thine own self be true And as it must follow, as […]
See! I’m already doing better
First off, the books I am currently reading: The 48 Laws of Power by Robert GreeneAuthenticity by James Gilmore and Joseph PineWhite City Blues by Tim LottThe Richard Branson Way by Des DearloveGeorgia by John EdgeCulture Shock! Paris by Frances GendlinLife in the Jungle by Michael HeseltineAbsolutely American by David LipskyNet Worth by John Hegel […]
I’m back(but not from outer space)….
Sorry for the long absence. I made a pact with myself that I would post on this blog at least once a week, and then the business took over….I am happy to say that I have two happy(?) clients and now that the dust is settling I also have the time to prospect for new […]