I’m really enjoying Tony Hsieh’s book Delivering Happiness about his meteoric build of Zappos.com (www.zappos.com) to a $1B+ company in just 10 years and eventual sale to Amazon in 2010. Not only is this a wild ride of a young entrepreneur putting it all on the line to build the…
There are strange things done in the midnight sun… In two weeks I will be pushing off from shore on the Yukon River for the longest endurance event of my life (OK, that sounded dramatic, but it is long!). Last September an article describing the Yukon River Quest (www.yukonriverquest.com) in…
Want to watch less TV? Read this. “I don’t know what to do, so I watch TV.” says Theresa. I’m sitting at a booth at the Saskatchewan Marathon race Expo and wondering how to respond. Theresa had heard my interview with Jeff Rogstad on the local CTV show, called the…
He is a hard-working, dedicated, even-driven, top store manager selected from his peers to represent his region. Great numbers, good income, lots of upward potential-no life. I asked Paul (not his real name) what he does to unwind when he isn’t working the 80 hours a week that he does….
The plan was to take a week off from my office routine and build a shed. The lessons learned, it turns out, were as big as the shed. For seven years I’ve been thinking about extending a storage shed in the backyard. “One week” promised Big Jim, my guru of…