I was just reminded of a very provocative book I read a few years back, The Superman Syndrome, by Gen N. Landrum, PH.D . On the book’s back cover the "superman syndrome" is defined as "a series of common behaviors that permit an otherwise average person to rise above the norm."
When I read a [...]
I have a confession to make: I love Tom Peters!
To clarify I love his mind, what he writes and what he says. If you do not know who I am talking about it is about time you learn. Tom is by title a business consultant and author. You may recall what may [...]
Since my merchant account writing is on hold for the moment I thought I would share of couple of interesting stories I came across over the weekend. I hope they make your Monday a better day.
The first is a lecture from Randy Pausch, a 46-year-old Carnegie Mellon computer science professor who is has terminal [...]
Ah yes, college football season is upon us. The team I was raised (brainwashed) to love, the USC Trojans, play the weak and feeble, University of Idaho Vandals this Saturday. I will be there, at the L.A. Colosseum, rooting my team on and hoping for a complete slaughter.
The first USC game I [...]
It was my 43rd birthday the other day and one of my children, Corrie, made me a Power Point presentation to mark the day. One of the slides gave some statistics about my life. The key stat that stood out to me was the one that revealed how many minutes I had lived. [...]
I was able to do a little Sunday morning reading from one of my favorite easy reads, “It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be” written by Paul Arden. As I read the pages realizing how counter intuitive and unreasonable the ideas are in the book I thought to [...]
I stole the title for this post from Seth Godin’s book “The Big Moo” which was a follow up to his previous title, “Purple Cow.” I just looked at some reviews for this book on amazon.com; here is some of what Publisher’s Weekly had to say,
“This means you have to toss out everything you [...]
