The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey by Kenneth H. Blanchard My rating: 3 of 5 stars The book boils down to an analogy – a monkey = a “next step” in any project. See my full review here. Basically: – Every monkey, or “next move” needs to be described. – Every monkey
“It all has to come out now.” That’s how independent Oklahoma City mayoral hopeful Hamman D. Byrd Jr. prefaced his decision, Friday, to release the details of a disturbing history of violence and sexual crimes in the Grand Theft Auto universe. “I want people to know that even though I have done some things
Oreo cookie balls taste amazing – like chocolate coated Oreo cookie dough. I made these for a Christmas party and they went down a storm. Ingredients: 1 pack of 32 Oreo cookies 1 12oz pack of cream cheese 1/2 a pack of white almond bark Recipe: Crush Oreo cookies into pieces about the size
A car crash is never good news. Unless it is. This was my first ever car accident – a fender bender in rush hour traffic. I was looking at my phone, I confess to texting and driving. Actually I was Facebook messaging someone who was asking my advice and I was doing my best
My wife was quietly devastated when we put up our Christmas tree this year, because our two and a half year old son was indifferent. She took his baby ornaments out of the boxes and got dewy eyed, but he was stuck to the construction site play box I built him. “I think I
A friend of mine with a toddler recently asked on Facebook, “At what age do stickers stop working as an all-purpose bribe?” My initial thought was, “Right about when they find out about sweets.” But I was wrong. Our eldest son is two and a half and we potty trained him in just a
I recently got a chance to spill my guts about my favorite topic of conversation – putting on Confluence blogging and digital influencer conference, here in Oklahoma City. As you can tell from the interview, it’s a subject I could talk about all day long. The conference was very definitely a labor of love.
I enjoy speaking. I prefer live crowds, but I’ll take a digital crowd over no crowd at all. I was pleased and flattered when Justin Fishaw from Digital Sherpa asked me to speak about search engine optimization (SEO) for small businesses at their upcoming webinar. It’ll be one of their 12 in 12 series,
The older our eldest son gets the more I want to build things for him. I’ve been kicking around an idea for a construction site play box so he can scoop and dump rocks and pretend to be working on the new road they’re building at the end of our block. Yesterday I made
It’s not fear of karma that motivates me to trap spiders under a glass and throw them out the back door, it’s utility. An action is right if it produces as much or more of an increase in happiness of all affected by it than any alternative action, and wrong if it does