Strategies.  Life is full of them.  And they seem to be spreading like a clone army.   Everywhere I turn, I see and hear people talking about them.  At work and at home.  From strategies for building customer relationships to taking out the trash. It got me thinking.  If everything is strategic, what does that [...]

I have a lot of bad habits.  Just ask my wife.  From a 20 year nail biting stint to an internal clock that never seems to operate on time, I’ve collected a few bad habits.  But now, I’m graduating from a year long adventure in the UMKC Entrepreneurial Scholars program trying to create a startup [...]

I was just in the middle of an auditorium packed full of parents and medical students.  The last time I learned anything about medicine was in 1996 in high school biology class.  And 17 years later, this auditorium was the last place I expected to learn anything new. What was the event?  Match Day 2013. [...]

I’m just in the middle of writing a business plan.  I’ve been just in the middle of this task for the last 10 months.  Do you have a startup?  Probably, right?  It’s the new American status symbol, along with North Face jackets and Pebble watches. If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the last year, [...]

I’m not a big fan of parades.  My kids love them, probably because of all the free candy.  But I don’t really get the steady onslaught of antique cars, second string celebrities and marching bands in itchy wool uniforms.  It’s like the dreaded powerpoint presentation at work.  I usually stare mindlessly as slide after slide [...]

I think I can.  I think I can.  I think I can.  The Little Engine that Could.  It’s a book I read to my kids almost every night.  And after the 145th time reading it, you start to gloss over the meaning in the story.  You read the words and point at each and every [...]