Snow gently falling – Check Deer feeding at the feeders – Check Squirrels frolicking in the snow – Check Christmas music on the stereo – Check Ingredients at the ready – Check Donut Man Apron donned – Check 100 Year Old Donut Machine pre-heated – Check Wait…something is missing. There is an empty stool this […]
My mother was a closet Jesus Freak! Who knew!??! Do you remember that group of hippies in the early seventies? OK, if you are too young to remember the early 70’s, look it up! Instead of sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll, they were all about Jesus, God and rock ‘n roll. My mom had […]
It all started on Thanksgiving day, a long, long time ago, in a beat up station wagon, somewhere on Interstate 65 and State Road 46 between Indianapolis and Nashville (Nashville, Indiana that is). My first wife, our two kids and I were heading to her mom’s place for Thanksgiving. The drive was going, well, it […]
Some Implications of Becoming a Large Organization.
Pop! In the distance the muted sound of a single gun shot. I crouched low, waiting. Pop! Pop-pop! Pop-pop-pop-pop! In the dark corner of the alley way, I could not be sure of the direction of the gun fire. It was obvious the fight was escalating. The sound echoed, it was difficult to tell how […]
It had been over 20 years since I had been on a hay ride. I daresay, that probably holds true for the majority of the participants at the recent #GWTS2014Summit…but let me start at the beginning. A year ago, we put a twist in our annual budget and planning cycle. Many companies and departments conduct […]
As I write this, I am on a plane 35,000 feet above the earth flying from Denver to Indianapolis, returning from VMworld 2013 in San Francisco. Since my experience was somewhat different (I HOPE) from most of the 22,000 attendees, and possibly somewhat humorous in some sort of twisted way, I wanted to share my […]
Linda Ellis, in her beautiful poem “The Dash“, tells the story of a man recounting the life of a friend; emphasizing the most important part of life is “the dash”, that time between the date of one’s birth and the date of one’s death. Mary Ellen Ton, my mom, was a woman with two dashes. […]
A great post by Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana’s CEO, Jim McClelland. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard “I didn’t know Goodwill did that”.
I could have just as easily titled this post “An Old Dog Learns ANOTHER New Trick” (“An Old Dog Goes Back to High School“), but I really have quit taking notes at conferences. Instead I have crowdsourced this task. How, you ask, did I do that? With Twitter, of course (right now everyone reading this […]