The problem with the Truth is that it can change.

Not too long ago, a few of us were in a spirited discussion about Truth and Facts; the two sometimes used interchangeably or synonymously.

One group took the position that Truth was an absolute. Unchanging, unyielding, definitive, and unquestionable. If…

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Harvard Business Review’s John Baldoni perhaps says it best, “Credibility is a leader's coin of the realm. With it, she can lead people to the Promised Land; without it, she wanders in the desert of lost expectations.” (http://bit.ly/o7cy4W)

Why does credibility matter? At it’s most fundamental level, it…

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It's just that simple. Either you do. Or you do not. And, there are countless ways to put lipstick on the topic. There are entire books written about execution, shipping something, or the like.

But it just comes down to did you? Did you not? And, Why?

Parallel to discussions of making things happen, you find discussions of failure. No one wants to…

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It’s a question that we frequently ask ourselves, perhaps professionally, perhaps personally. As a motorcyclist, it is particularly true when someone raises the topic of motorcycle training. So it is, with the arrival of the latest California Superbike School newsletter and Spring around the corner, that these questions came forward in my…

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This afternoon I came across a LinkedIn comment which lead me to read through an article discussing, “What are the basic principles of IT project management?”  I think the article is really just a piece of linkbait.

The person posting the article added the comment, “Projects progress rapidly until they become 90 percent complete; they then remain 90 percent complete forever.”  The comment is more interesting than the…

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A few friends are currently working on creating a new blog.  Within a week three asked me about using WordPress (WP) and which plugins (aka widgets) are worth considering.

A Short Word on WordPress .COM and WordPress .ORG

If you are considering the use of plugins, you have already made the decision to self-host your blog using WP. Some have wondered the… Continue