by bookshepherd_admin | May 16, 2009 | Workplace Smarts
Picture this: Bert or Bertha has once again taken credit for the work that you have spent grueling hours over, to the extreme annoyance of your family and friends . . . and you are a man. Or, picture this: Bert or Bertha has once again taken credit for the work that...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 16, 2009 | Workplace Smarts
The news is filled with war chatter. Talk of wrong, right, mismanagement, unprepared, incompetence, freedom, democracy, oil, politics, conflict, casualties, brutality and war fill the airwaves and print. War—the war there and the affect of the war here.The West and...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 16, 2009 | Workplace Smarts
This past month has been dominated with the effect of Hurricane Katrina — to people, to business, to community, even to the world. Disasters, they happen. I was fascinated with a story published in The New York Times on September 6, 2005 about Jim Judkins,...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 16, 2009 | Personal Smarts
Winter will be here in a few months. Imagine being in a car that is stuck in snow—you forward and reverse the gears, hoping to jimmy yourself out of the rut. The wheels are in motion, your car isn’t. Are you like your car—living a life where there’s action, but no...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 16, 2009 | Personal Smarts
Everyone should have a durable power of attorney—a legal instrument that tells adults who may have to step in on your behalf what you want. Powers of Attorney are needed for the unexpected—accidents, life threatening illnesses, paralyzing strokes and weird events...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 16, 2009 | Personal Smarts
I confess, I love the Holidays but I hate shopping-just about any kind of shopping that demands my physical presence in the midst of a zillion other people. Which is somewhat odd, since I speak to 30,000 plus women and men a year and I enjoy that. What gives? To me,...
