technology
Is lack of communication hurting our kids?
I had an interesting situation happen with my 17 year old son and some of his friends. They had gone camping with some friends for four days. On day four they were coming home and the car they were in broke down and started smoking. They pushed the car to a gas station in Cascade. Everyone’s cell phones were dead because there was no where to plug them in to re-charge. Tents don’t have outlets. They did not know what to do so they started walking, to Boise (walking home was another conversation later).Read More >>
High tech in any business
Jargon. What used to be only geek-speak is now something that everyone is starting to understand. Who doesn’t know what an app is today? Cloud computing is a new one. When I first heard the term, I thought it had to be a futuristic technology where I could go to another planet in a shuttle and still connect with my friends on Twitter. Then I found out that it was already happening and I was already using it.Read More >>
Technology - Trick or Treat?
When someone says the word technology do you want to run and hide? Does your favorite horror movie play over and over again in your head and Frankenstein has been replaced by a bird? Do the words Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, blogging, tweeting, re-tweet, texting, IM and DM make you extremely frightened? What do IM and DM even mean? With all the abbreviated words what is happening to our English? How do you keep up?Read More >>
Technology love
Emotions in business
I wonder why we don’t think emotions belong in business. We give it lip-service, but when it boils right down to it, we throw the baby (emotions) out with the bathwater in the name of efficiency or effectiveness.
Most visionaries succeed by being emotionally extreme. This does not mean degrading business things that require mental gears by throwing emotion at it, but using emotion strategically to affect areas that prosper with emotional intelligence laced through them.Read More >>
