TALENT HIDES
I ain’t never seen no event like TechBash before. Right away, I gets hit with pounding music, flashing lights and maybe a couple thousand er more people. Place is fulla bigshots—I never seen so many...
View ArticleTHE APPRENTICE MEETS DIGITAL BOOT CAMP
Technology is a tool of transformation. We teach technology because it’s creative. It doesn’t know what you look like but at the end of the day you can be a rock star. We’re searching for people who...
View ArticleTOUGH LOVE
This is a story about raw love. Tough. Rugged. Unashamed. “I think that at the end of the day," She says, "there are three things that you should know about us: We’re an opportunity, not a charity....
View ArticleARISE 2.0
Whadaya think happens when 15,000 people get behind the entrepreneurs in their own neighborhood? Good things—that’s what happens! Energy. Enthusiasm. Stuff gets done! Lemme tell you about it: Continue...
View ArticlePERSUADING A GROUP
General George Patton, leading U.S. Army general in World War II said, "No one is thinking if everyone is thinking alike." WARNING - This article will contradict what most believe about speaking to a...
View ArticleROUGHING IT
“Don’t you want to feel safe?” asks Rosalind Russell. In response, Clark Gable knits his brows. “I never have. What’s it like?” * Vigorous travel is a grueling sport sir! One does not select air...
View ArticleFISH STORY
Fishermen are liars! After a superb day of fishing in the Canadian Wilderness, I prepare to utter my first exaggeration when Jonelis comes in with this monstrous THING. Look at it sir! This stretches...
View ArticleLIES ABOUT PARADISE
I recognize a sharp character flaw among outdoorsmen of all sorts—an uncontrollable urge to exaggerate—particularly after an excursion to a wilderness such as northern Manitoba. Permit me to treat you...
View ArticleYOUR WORK IS NOT YOUR LIFE
You can't be all things to all people; you can't dance every dance; and, throughout your life, you've got to make hard choices, sacrifices, and compromises, and then you've got to live with them...
View ArticleA LOOP LONAGAN CHRISTMAS
This is outrageous. I’m concentrating on my computer screen when a huge mitt grabs me by the back of the belt and plucks me from my chair. Next thing I’m dangled high over the desk, arms and legs...
View ArticleUNDERESTIMATING THE COMPETITION
Ever face a crisis situation? Raw panic? Of course you have. We've all been burned by miscalculation, greed, and shoddy research. People have been making the same mistakes for quite a long time and a...
View ArticleSABBATICAL
Jonelis ain’t here. He announced a sabbatical and disappeared. That is correct, sir! I am in charge! That is my hat on the hook. Those are my boots resting on the WWII Air Force desk. I will take this...
View ArticleYOUR BUSINESS AND YOUR CHILDREN
“Why am I doing this?” That's the question dominating a President's Advisory Committee board meeting (PAC). None of the members—all business owners—intend to give or sell their business to their...
View ArticleHAWKS
“Quit talking business! This is important!” A shocking pronouncement coming from one’s employer! I go mum. Jonelis and Lonagan both jump to their feet and beer sloshes onto my fine white flannel suit....
View ArticleHOW TO TREAT THE OLD MAN
A huge part of the value of this excursion is the solitude of the north woods. Solitude has no price tag, so shoot the works! Surprise the old man! RENT THE WHOLE LODGE! Sure, the facility holds 25...
View ArticleCROSSTOWN CLASSIC
Where do subversive attitudes fester and bloom into conviction? Childhood! Between 1st and 6th grades, I grew up in a demilitarized zone populated by Sox fans AND Cubs fans. I loved the Cubs. But the...
View ArticleTHE DRAGON LADY AND THE BIG BAD DUCK
This big bully shows up. All da little kid’s call ‘im da Big Bad Duck ‘cause he wears a funny thing on his head, sticks out like a beak. He wants to play fer da Elephants. Pretty soon, he says he...
View ArticleAPPLESAUCE AND APPLE
by Tom McBride and Ron Nief - The students who began college this past fall have a forty percent chance of graduating in four years, and a seventy percent chance of graduating in six. They are all too...
View ArticleDON’T ASK WHY—ASK WHY NOT
by Howard Tullman - When we're born, we're only afraid of two things - falling and loud noises. From then forward we learn to be afraid of other things and too often allow those fears to keep us from...
View ArticleLIAR
- written by Howard Tullman - We say what we'll do and then we do what we said we'd do. It couldn't be more straightforward. You don't get to be truthful some of the time or at some later time....
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