
I’m the very definition of a type-A personality. I like everything neat, clean, and in order. However, even I fall by the wayside sometimes and find the dishes piling up or the laundry find it’s way out of the closet…
I’m an organized person. I write everything down, need things in a special order, and even color code my highlighters/Sharpie pens according to the activity/the importance of it. Slightly OCD? Maybe. But most of the time, it works in my…
KISS – Keeping it Simple Stupid is a phrase often cited by business leaders, however it’s harder to act on than most realize. What does KISS mean to you? Start by making a list of business activities that you’re looking…
Healthy inquisitiveness is at the root of who, what, when, where, how and especially why. Eleanor Roosevelt opined, “I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift,…
Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book (and Nobel Laureate) also wrote poetry – must have been my inadvertent inspiration. I keep six honest serving-men, They taught me all I knew; Their names are What and Why and When And…
What are you doing? What are you asking me to do? What exactly has to happen? Here we have another powerful word with what. As so often is the case, the more you specify, the better. Clarifying expectations and requirements…
Thomas Edison declared, “Vision without execution is hallucination.” When something needs to happen tends to be very tactical, yet it holds a potent influence on success. The funny thing about when something needs to happen is that different deadlines for…