It’s a Phone, Not a Boom Box

by | Oct 29, 2017

  Let’s reminisce about Boom Boxes! Did you have one? Do you remember how a person would carry it on his shoulder, blasting sound into his own ears and into all those ears around him within a city block? Or some would set them up and broadcast music loud enough...

Boomers Phone Manners Rant

by | Oct 22, 2017

  Here’s the problem. You’re in a restaurant or the waiting room at your doctor’s office, or concentrating on your workout at the gym, or waiting to board a plane. And then it happens. Someone near you begins talking on their phone as if they’re sitting...

How to Not Be an Empty Suit

by | Oct 15, 2017

I was talking with the president of a company about his sales team. He said that he doesn’t send empty suits out to talk with his customers. First, he only hires engineers to be his sales representatives. And then they devote a year to the business before they are...

Have You Filled Your Pinata?

by | Oct 8, 2017

Listen Here Good Times Recently I attended a double nickel birthday party. It was a boomer blast. The birthday girl’s husband went all out to make 55 a festive and memorable event. We enjoyed a chimenea fire, storytelling, live music by some of the guests, delicious...