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Travel Tips From Your Roving Speaker

I’m proud of being a healthy, well exercised road warrior. Let me tell you how I do it. Exercise Dance: If you like to dance like nobody’s watching, there’s nothing like a hotel-room-solo dance party to spark up a business trip. I’ve collected songs I like to dance to...

Radical Customer Service

I was jetlagged at yet another airport. It was night three of my important, multi-city business trip. With this new client, everything had to be just right. I checked my luggage on a puddle jumper not realizing that I was supposed to pick up my bag plane-side. I...

November “One Minute Note”

Will your local drug store tear down the Halloween decor this week and put up paper turkeys and tinsel? You can count on it. The holiday season is marching our way. So let’s take a collective breath. Yes, you. Come on. In you go…and out. You’re a popular person....

The Sunny Side of Networking

I’d lost touch with Gary years ago. A chance meeting with a mutual friend resulted in this long overdue phone call. Shane and I were catching up on each other’s budding businesses: “Gary, before we go any further on this call, help me understand how I can send...

Another Bias Bites the Dust

My largest client, SkillPath Seminars, gives me a tremendous opportunity for surprise and adventure. It begins with an email that asks, “Are you available to go to such-and-such a city on such-and-such a date?” Then I answer, “Sure.” It’s only then, when I’ve...