by bookshepherd_admin | Feb 16, 2010 | Articles, My Blog, Personal Smarts, Workplace Smarts
What happens when a team, a group, a company or an organization loses its vision, its organization, it energy, its leadership and/or its passion? Simply, it dies. Some deaths are sudden. Most are prolonged, and can be agonizing. Gumblings and complaints about the...
by bookshepherd_admin | Nov 1, 2009 | Personal Smarts
Twelve years ago August, hubby John and I moved into the home that we had built in the Metro-Denver area of Colorado. That October, I had a speaking gig in Salt Lake City and another one a few days later in New Orleans. We were schedule to pass through Denver with a...
by bookshepherd_admin | Sep 29, 2009 | Workplace Smarts
I’m a tad surprised with the mega responses and queries I’ve received about a recent column I did on job searches for the Denver Business Journal. Calls and emails from people from all over the country. There’s a variation of it in ezinearticles.com...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 17, 2009 | Workplace Smarts
In case you’ve missed the news, times are not great. Unemployment is creeping up. Google’s recent announcement of a layoff post the DoubleClick acquisition has splashed across the nation’s news outlets. Now, it’s not uncommon for a company to do some housecleaning...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 17, 2009 | Workplace Smarts
Have you ever been at a function, be it with a dozen or many, many more, and you’ve done one of those brain-dead things … you’ve forgotten the name of someone you were just been introduced to?You painstakingly try to remember the guy’s name, hoping that someone will...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 17, 2009 | Workplace Smarts
You’re beat. It’s been a long month. You note the clock says 3:10. You need a break. Your boss walks into your cubicle and drenches any plans of you roaring at a game. Another project has become urgent. One that you knew was out there, but your boss didn’t...
