Relationships between humans become complicated in face-to-face communication when there is little use of emotional intelligence, little cognitive understanding of what is going on in a conversation and little ability to engage positively in conflict with another person. So, in the digital space, tl;dr (too long; didn’t read) becomes a Read more…
If you are dedicated to building your entrepreneurial business, it’s going to be tough for someone to live with you. There are two ways to deal with this: You can hope that your idea is so good, that it stands out above the other 95% of ideas out there in Read more…
From Detroit, Michigan to Gary, Indiana, urban decay is a fact as cities evolve from the physical industrial totems to 20th century progress into the semi-transparent, high technology incubators of the virtual 21st century. And, with 70% of the human population living in cities by 2050, the crimes, poverty, squatting Read more…
There are two mindsets and one, which was chiefly dominant throughout the 20th century is in decline, while the other is ascending. The Entrepreneur mindset is based on taking on risk, pushing the boundaries and restlessly finding new visions and new horizons. The Employee mindset is based on committing wholeheartedly Read more…
The people who never believed in you. The people who said “that’ll never work.” The people who mutter under their breath at family dinners or cocktail parties. The people who write ridiculous, inflammatory comments on your blog. These are just a sample of the people who don’t matter. Why, if Read more…
Privacy, the law and the social contract is breaking down. People want to access the internet and be social privately, secretly and anonymously, but the NSA reads our emails and may soon have access to the data that all the devices in our home will be sharing with each other. Read more…
The culture of the workplace promotes a culture of appearing to be busy. In the daily fog of war of conflict, we appear to be busy in the workplace in order to avoid having to confront the hard things: The workplace project that isn’t working. The relationship with the partner Read more…
The professional consultant and coach most often acts as a solopreneur. She is most often alone in the pursuit of dream. She is typically overwhelmed by concerns about accounting and how much she must charge to make a profit, how her marketing is working (or not) and multiple other competing Read more…
The most important driver for success in the 21st century, as the workplace shifts from being about making things with our hands, to making things with our ideas, is emotional intelligence. Don’t get us wrong, building physical objects still means something, but the most important building is happening with ideas, Read more…
Culture defines how employees make meaning about the work that they do. Workplace culture is defined as ways of thinking, behaving and working in an organization that provides boundaries for where employees can and cannot place value. The issue comes when the personal culture that an employee comes from doesn’t match Read more…