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Listening, Learning, and Laughing
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Think About It..., by Bill | No Comments »
I have no way of knowing this, but I would bet a tidy sum that the majority of readers of this blog are, like its authors, members of the baby-boom ... Read more..Professional? Hardly - Part II
Saturday, July 26th, 2008 Posted in Think About It..., by Richard | No Comments »
About a month ago, my 20-year-old daughter, who had been studying in Scotland, stepped gracelessly off a curb in London, and broke her left foot. She received excellent emergency care ... Read more..Qantas Crew Safely Handles Inflight Emergency
Saturday, July 26th, 2008 Posted in Management, Think About It..., by Bill | No Comments »
Earlier this week, a Qantas Airlines 747-400 jet with 350+ souls aboard, en route from Hong Kong to Melbourne experienced sudden decompression at cruise altitude, resultant from a mysterious rupture ... Read more..Professional? Hardly.
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Posted in Management, Think About It..., by Bill | No Comments »
Yesterday, the US Airline Pilots Association, on behalf of member pilots at US Airways, placed a full-page ad, “A Message to Our Valued Passengers…” in USA Today (p. 5A). The ... Read more..Leaders are Optimists
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 Posted in Extra Milers, Leadership, by Bill | No Comments »
In the May 12 issue of Fortune Magazine (OK, I'm a little behind on my reading), PepsiCo Chairman and CEO, Indra Nooyi credited her father with the best piece of ... Read more..Tony Snow
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Favorite Folks, by Richard | No Comments »
The death this weekend of Tony Snow, former Fox News editor and White House Press Secretary, leaves another void, as did the recent death of Tim Russert, in the ranks ... Read more..The Man Behind the Monkey
Thursday, July 10th, 2008 Posted in Favorite Folks, by Richard | 1 Comment »
When I first started my consulting business in 1989, a good friend gave me a Harvard Business Review reprint of what he described at the time as a classic article ... Read more..Things are Getting Tough for Restaurants, but Wage & Hour Violations Not Worth the Risk
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in Management, Meeting Goals, Think About It..., by Bill | No Comments »
We do a fair amount of work with the hospitality industry, and to be sure, they are feeling the pinch right now. Operating on the leading (bleeding?) edge of the ... Read more..CNN Stock Report
Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Think About It..., by Richard | 1 Comment »
You know, I just have to comment on this. Right now, I'm sitting on a Delta plane, watching CNN on the seatback satellite TV screen. About a half-hour ago, the ... Read more..America’s Credit Union Conference
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in Motivation, by Richard | No Comments »
The Credit Union National Association has been holding America's Credit Union Conference this week at the New York Hilton. It was my pleasure to be the speaker for one of ... Read more..