Product and service reviews are vitally important to most businesses. Customers give feedback, letting the business know how they did, offering insight, suggestions and praise or criticism. Read enough reviews and you will quickly realize that some are much more … Read More
We tend to become pretty intense about turning the page on a new year. We make resolutions, set SMART goals and vow that things will be different this time. While some people are certainly very successful with their efforts, others … Read More
Winter doesn’t always get the respect it deserves. It’s cold, dark and tends to seem quite bare. While it isn’t my personal favorite season, it is one I greatly respect. You see, winter is when the deepest work occurs in … Read More
Years ago, Kerri and I ran a training on interviewing. One of the activities we had the participants do was a role play, where they broke into teams with some of them acting as interviewers and others being interviewed. In … Read More
“Monday Morning Quarterbacking” (MMQB) is an activity that seems to have reached epic proportions. We do it with high profile news events, business decisions, interpersonal interactions and even natural disasters. While there are a variety of definitions, one offered by … Read More
When Kerri and I first started our business, we took a course at the local community college to help us with some basics. It was a great experience and we learned a lot, but the biggest takeaway for me was … Read More
One of the gifts that unite Kerri and I is what the good folks at Clifton Strengths call “Ideation.” We are idea machines. Potential lines of business to pursue, products that should be improved or invented, problems that need to … Read More
Most everyone has a thing they will buy, regardless of “need.” Maybe it’s journals, Legos, or perfume. For me, it’s cookbooks. As long as I can remember, I have loved everything about them; spying an interesting cover, cracking the spine, … Read More
One thing I think we can all agree on is that 2020 has been one type of crisis after another. From the pandemic, to social justice issues, to the fires raging now on the west coast, we have had to … Read More