I was having a conversation with my youngest daughter Danie who is a first-year manager at a store in Bar Harbor, Maine. She was expressing some of the frustrations of a first-time manager to me and asking for advice. Since I work with new managers regularly, I’m familiar with the challenges they face and how… Read more »
I don’t know about you, but I have more fun when I’m getting results faster rather than slower. Now that begs the question, why do things happen slowly in the first place? And I’m happy or sad to say (depending on how you are reading this) but they happen at the speed they do because… Read more »
My younger self would never believe this, and by younger, I may not mean that many years younger than I am now. In the past, I believed that the longer and harder you worked the better. My goal for the past 2 years has been to get my work week down to 50 hours a… Read more »
I was on the phone earlier this week with a prospect and I felt like I could have been talking to myself a few years back. We were talking about working weekends and she stated that she hasn’t had a weekend off in 3 to 4 years and she tries to take a day off… Read more »
I’ve heard some version of “You don’t know how hard it is to _____” from several people in the past week. Many of these people would be considered to have it made by people on the outside looking in. People like the successful dentist who is overwhelmed by how much time it takes to deal with his… Read more »