Mitch's BlogMitch's BlogThis is a business blog concentrating on the areas of leadership, management, diversity, customer service, motivation and healthcare finance. It's written from my own personal perspective of these issues, and occasaional includes other issues as wel Articles
Perspective Is Always Interesting
2008-06-06 22:17:00 For the next few weeks I’ll be doing a consulting assignment in Pennsylvania. As with most places I go to, one of the first questions I’m asked is where I’m from. Instead of getting specific with it, I just say I’m from the Syracuse, NY area. Now, depending on where I am, the response ... More About: Interesting , Management , Leadership , Diversity , Perspective
Anxiety
2008-06-05 04:21:00 Anxiety is a strange thing. We get anxious for many different reasons, and it manifests itself in many different ways. We can get anxious because we’re starting a new job. We can get anxious worrying about whether we can pay all of our bills. We can get anxious because we’re worried ... More About: Management , Leadership , Anxiety
Being Prepared
2008-06-02 21:31:00 Tomorrow morning I hit the road for a few weeks on a consulting assignment. I only found out about it earlier today, and they absolutely need me on the premises before noon tomorrow. Initially I was ready to go into a panic, since I’ll be gone for the week. After all, if it was ... More About: Management , Leadership
Elements Of Greatness
2008-05-31 17:07:00 Here’s a wonderful video that a friend of mine sent to me that I believe all of you will like as much as I did. More About: Elements , Motivation
What Other People Think
2008-05-31 06:41:00 My wife is a lovely woman, and I say that knowing she doesn’t read my blog; isn’t that a shame, you can work on getting others to read your stuff, but your own wife,… oh well,… Anyway, she’s one of those people that most other people just like. There are those kinds of people that ... More About: People , Motivation
Taking Personal Shots Isn?t Often A Smart Thing
2008-05-30 06:15:00 There seems to be a whole lot of people saying things that are causing quite a stir lately. Sharon Stone caused a stir at a fund raiser when she not only said that the earthquake against China was bad karma for them because of how they treat Tibetians, but she also sat on P. ... More About: Personal , Management , Leadership , Smart , Shots
Talking RSS Feeds
2008-05-28 21:01:00 This is something a little different from my norm, but it’s time for a computer lesson. More specifically, it’s time for a RSS lesson. RSS stands for “really simple syndication”, and basically it gives people an opportunity to follow new content from websites or blogs that are often changing what’s being presented on the site. ... More About: Talking
Blue Ribbon Movie
2008-05-28 06:09:00 After some pretty deep and long posts, I figure we need a break, some time to decompress, and something to make us feel good. So, please enjoy this little motivational clip from something called The Blue Ribbon Movie : More About: Motivation
Being A Man
2008-05-28 00:16:00 On Steve Pavlina’s blog, he wrote a very interesting post called How To Be A Man. He’s someone who doesn’t accept comments, but instead has people who, when they have comments on his post, end up writing about his posts and has it ping back to him. So, we’ll go along with that ... More About: Management , Leadership
Is A Conversation About Race Possible?
2008-05-27 08:08:00 First, the quick story. On another blog, the writer quoted someone who said they’d gone to Africa, and after hearing that another country was apologizing for slavery, he wondered why no one had apologized to him while he was in Africa. Initially I assumed the writer was white, then when I learned the ... More About: Diversity , Race , Conversation
Overcoming Fear Makes You Feel Better
2008-05-24 17:56:00 Two weeks ago I wrote a post called Fear And Business, where I talked about how most people in business, either their own or working for someone else, are working more from a position of fear, which is its own type of motivation, though not very positive. I don’t think I went far enough in that ... More About: Motivation , Feel
Too Busy For Quality?
2008-05-23 19:49:00 Are you too busy for quality? That was an experiment put on by the Washington Post that I was alerted to be Guy Kawasaki on Twitter. The title of the news story was Pearls Before Breakfast, and it talks about an experiment they did where they took one of the world’s most renown ... More About: Quality , Busy
Is There An Equivalent Word?
2008-05-23 04:56:00 This week two things happened concerning the N-word; one didn’t involve me, one did. The rapper Nas, who had wanted to give his latest CD that negative appellation, was turned down by his record producers, and now it will just be named after him. It seems the publishers would actually like to sell some records ... More About: Word , Diversity
We Must Be Ready To Change
2008-05-22 18:53:00 First, the latest TTM Consulting Newsletter, People Will Leave Your Life, based on two posts ago, is available and has gone out to all my subscribers. I was reading an article earlier on how the social networking site Facebook, is going through a redesign, which is going to launch at the beginning of June. I ... More About: Management , Change , Leadership , Ready
Don?t Be The Victim To Insurance Companies
2008-05-22 06:28:00 About a month ago, I went to the store up the street to pick up a prescription medication for my diabetes. The clerk behind the counter told me I owed close to $50; I was stunned. I told her that my medications are supposed to be free, which they are. She checked ... More About: Companies , Insurance , Healthcare , Victim
People Will Leave Your Life
2008-05-21 03:55:00 Lately I’ve been wondering what’s going on with a young friend of mine. We were talking almost daily through instant messaging for awhile there, and it was fun. Then one day I didn’t hear from her, and when I finally did it was about two weeks later through email. She said she ... More About: Life , People , Management , Leadership , Leave
Planet Earth
2008-05-20 01:11:00 Time for us to slow down for a few minutes, take a breath, and decide we want some moments that will make us feel good. The folks from The Secret have produced this video called “Planet Earth ” that I just have to share after watching it. If this doesn’t make you feel good, ... More About: Motivation , Planet Earth
Get Motivated And Do Something
2008-05-19 08:16:00 I’m always sitting at my computer when I’m home. I feel like my office is my own oasis within my house, my own room of fun. My wife calls my computer “her”, and says I may spend too much time with “her”; she’s probably right. However, I can’t say that I’m working ... More About: Motivation
David Goldsmith At PCA
2008-05-17 04:11:00 This morning’s speaking at my Professional Consultant’s Association of CNY meeting was David Goldsmith of Metamatrix Consulting. This isn’t a guy who’s going places; he’s already there. I knew we were in for a good presentation because we actually had double the number of people who usually attend one of our meetings, and ...
Atlas Shrugged And Objectivism
2008-05-16 06:01:00 I’m not sure how many people have read the book Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I thought it was a phenomenal book years ago when I read it, even though it’s one of the largest books on record as far as number of words, coming in around 645,000. I loved the story of ... More About: Management , Leadership , Objectivism
Setting The Standards
2008-05-15 02:29:00 Many years ago, I inserted myself into a situation that was clearly sexual harassment; unintentional, but sexual harassment nonetheless. Because I was a director at the time, I felt an obligation to do something about it, even if it was just to talk to both parties and encourage the director to make a big ... More About: Standards , Management , Leadership
Follow Up To The Art Zimmer Interview
2008-05-14 20:52:00 Back in March I wrote a post about a new interview initiative being undertaken here in the Syracuse area, and how the first interviewee was Art Zimmer . Jill Hurst, the initiator of the series, named Enitiative, wrote about the interview here, and she captured it all very well. I like that our area is doing ... More About: Interviews , Interview
Words Of Encouragement
2008-05-14 05:55:00 This morning I awoke feeling tired and miserable. It’s no wonder; I had been trying to fix an issue for one of my clients, and I didn’t figure out how to address the issue until just after 1:30 in the morning, and didn’t get the issue totally fixed until just after 3AM. And, ... More About: Words , Motivation
Racial Profiling Does Exist
2008-05-13 02:05:00 In communities across the country, the police are fond of saying that racial profiling doesn’t exist, and that people are making it up because of their hate for the police. I know I’ve been pulled over a time or two when I was younger, but those days seem to have passed at this juncture. Well, ... More About: Diversity , Exist , Racial
Cheesecake Factory?s Customer Service Is Supreme
2008-05-12 06:40:00 Yesterday I took my mother and grandmother to the Cheesecake Factory in the Rochester area because it’s become my mother’s favorite restaurant. It became my mother’s favorite restaurant once I introduced it to her back in March, so I knew she’s enjoy herself. My initial thought was that I was beating the crowd in taking ... More About: Customer Service , Service , Customer
Bad Oversight Causes A Beating
2008-05-10 05:09:00 By now, everyone has heard about the incident in Philadelphia where 15 police officers pulled 3 black men from a building and started beating them without restriction. For once, it wasn’t just some guy standing on a corner filming it, but a news crew whose helicopter just happened to be flying overhead. At ... More About: Management , Leadership , Beating
Fear And Business
2008-05-09 04:23:00 Many of us don’t think of it this way, but fear drives most of what we do in our careers. We get a job because we’re afraid we won’t be able to make it working on our own. We don’t take a lot of chances because we fair being rebuffed or making mistakes. ... More About: Business , Management , Leadership , Fear
Know What Your Customers Do
2008-05-07 22:51:00 Once again today, I received an email from someone who didn’t know me or my business offering to provide services to me. I don’t have a problem with this normally, because we all have to market our services in some fashion. What I had a problem with, however, is that the services I was being ... More About: Customers
I?m Just Sharing
2008-05-06 19:12:00 I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned it, but I have another blog that’s more for marketing and personal observations called I’m Just Sharing . I mention it because it gives a different perspective on things I think are either fun, troubling, important, or my just wanting to try to sell something. What’s funny about this is ...
Hype Or Bluster; Which Management Type Are You?
More articles from this author:2008-05-06 02:12:00 I’m not the only one who’s ever asked this particular question, but it’s my first time doing it here: why do all those rappers look so mad? Why? Because it helps them sell records, that’s why. Most of them really aren’t that mad at all; why should they be? Many of them ... More About: Management , Leadership , Hype , Type 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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