Anybody who knows me knows I love to fish. I agree with Chuck Clark, who said, “Three-fourths of the Earth’s surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn.” […]

The five-year plan is dead. That’s right, dead. Irrelevant. Obsolete. The five-year plan is to business strategy what the dial-up modem is to Internet access. You can keep using it, but you’re going to get left behind. Now, before all you Type-A folks out there start hyperventilating, let me explain. […]

I’ve come to believe every company does it. Even the really good companies. Sometimes intentionally and sometimes inadvertently. I am talking about the notorious “workaround.” In the name of progress, individuals and organizations engineer processes and systems that work around the employee, boss, founder, or team member who is too […]

“Who’s going to finish second this year?” is a regular conversation in my world. Why? It’s because I live in a college town with a football team stuck with Alabama on the schedule every year. I also co-own a sports content marketing company called Sport & Story so I hear […]