There’s a scene in the movie Life or Something Like It where Lanie Kerrigan (Angelina Jolie) ignores what is “expected,” and chooses her own questions to ask the legendary TV personality Deborah Connors (Stockard Channing). It, of course, made for a great interview. {from the script: Producer: You’ll find your list of questions in here.… Read More Five Marks of a Great Interviewer
I don’t manage my time well enough. Do you? The answer, almost certainly, is “no.” Not many of us do. Spock did – and, I suspect David Allen does. And Peyton Manning. But most of us are mere mortals, and we are: off focused, easily distracted, lazy, following the wrong priorities, following no priorities… We… Read More The Jury Is In – We Are, Nearly All, World-Class Time Wasters!
I have just discovered a remarkable resource. The resource is the Hobby Center for the Study of Texas at Rice University. (Yes, I know I should have known about this Center, and its useful web site earlier). Here’s how this started. I have finished reading Changing Texas: Implications of Addressing or Ignoring the Texas Challenge by Steve… Read More The Texas Challenge: Changing Ethnicity and Socioeconomic “Threats” – Insight from Changing Texas by Steve Murdock (and others)
“Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.” Ecclesiastes 12:12 It happens to me all the time. I will be at a networking event, or I will be making a book synopsis presentation, and someone will ask me: “Have… Read More So Many, Many, Many Books — So Little Time
First Friday Book Synopsis 