Potpourri: Sales Great Bill Brooks’ legacy: A friend October 27, 2007, death silenced one of the nation’s strongest sales training voices and great human beings, Bill Brooks, at 62. It will not quiet the enthusiasm, knowledge, and leadership that will resonate for years with those he led, taught, and mentored for decades. (The Brooks Group has trained […]
Potpourri: Puppy Mill bill passes in Missouri – great – here is why: The November 2010 election win for a bill to try to stop puppy mills in Missouri passed! I am personally delighted…. here is why! I’ve saw puppy mills up close for weeks: Puppies raised like chickens in rural areas and barely surviving. A row of 1-foot […]
Potpourri: Preparing For Job (In)Security: Self-help Is your job not as secure as it seems? Or is it the industry in which you work? And… what are you to do about it? Let’s use the broadcasting business as a jumping off point for this discussion since I spent two decades in it. Two TV News anchors in […]
Potpourri: Post Traumatic Stress – One Saga: The January mass shooting in Tucson leaves behind six dead, 14 wounded, and likely PTSD victims. Time to revisit this article I wrote about a friend’s decades-long struggle to get over the Vietnam War and the post-trauma stress. ———- (First written in 2000) Janis Nark is a friend and I want […]
Potpourri: On getting back to normal after the attack: 9/11 At the end of the Vietnam War, American Prisoners returned to the U.S. mostly en masse. Many, like then Navy pilot John McCain, had languished for years in captivity. Most of us in the states did not really know what the captors had done to the POW’s. […]
Potpourri: Olbermann: Just what is journalism these days With Olbermann’s acrimonious departure from Current… let’s take another look at a column I wrote about the news vs opinion several years ago… see what you think. In 2008 Rolling Stone called MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann “the most honest man in news” and quoted from his nightly political skewering: “’Mr. Bush, the […]
Potpourri: News helicopter crashes – What’s going on?: From archives What to make of recent helicopter crashes? As I write this, a news chopper just crash-landed in Texas. All survived. Days ago, two news helicopters in Phoenix collided and killed four people. I write about this because it resonates. I rode choppers for three years as a […]
Potpourri: My Best Tips on How to Survive or Succeed in this Tough Economy: Sales & Marketing It’s back to basics! With the hot wind of serious recession shrinking companies and potential business some of us will be forced to start over while others must jump start what they already have. I began my business in 1994 […]
Potpourri: Motivating Yourself To Change Your Life: Are you feeling trapped by your life? Do you blame others for your circumstances? Do you believe that those who take risks and change their lives are different from you? Do you think you are too old, poorly educated, or frightened to alter your existence? There is a way […]
Potpourri: More From The Late Jim Farr – on Leadership: Self-help I struck an emotional chord with some of you with my column on the death of leadership expert Jim Farr and about his often life-changing teachings. Ray Arnette in Richmond wrote hundreds of words in tribute and said, “We will continue to see the results of […]