HR Rocks. So proclaims the button I picked up at the annual convention of the Society for Human Resource Management. The button was being passed out by the O.C. Tanner Company and attached to a piece of cardboard that had the following printed on it: People create People invent People discover People dream People build…
Read moreThe Essential Extra
I was a factory worker in Russia on November 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Actually, I wasn’t even born yet. But the other day I had an opportunity to be an extra in the television show Granite Flats. The scene in the episode being filmed was taking place on that…
Read moreCall Me a Flake
I like the idea of being a professional. I like it more than being a flake, which according to my way of thinking was participation in fields that involved anything smacking of right brain use—artist, actor, writer, dancer, painter, illustrator, etc. Well, call me a flake now because in February I took acting classes. I had…
Read moreThe Emotions of Business
I had always figured that business was all about numbers and data. Becoming an entrepreneur was proving to be more of an emotional journey than I had ever imagined. I was by schooling and profession a logical, reasoning, “Let’s just deal with facts,” kind of person. Yet the further I pursued my entrepreneurial dream, the…
Read moreBecome A Master Story Teller!
“Now Johnny, don’t be telling stories.” Such is the rebuke of mothers the world over to little tykes who are prone to embellishments. Yet at this month’s National Speakers Association (NSA) Mountain West Chapter meeting, such admonitions were thrown to the wind with wild abandonment. November’s meeting was all about telling stories. It was about why we…
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