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CEO Shoptalk: Motivation v Inspiration

Big Red Car — Tue, 23 May 2023 17:01:56 +0000

One of the current topics in the scrum discussion about leadership in the job environment at the C-suite level is the issue of motivation v inspiration. It is a nuanced discussion and it is tied into our current cultural metamorphosis in the workplace including such things as Work From Home v office work. What exactly […]

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Performance Appraisal As Inspiration And Motivation

Big Red Car — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 19:50:03 +0000

Performance appraisal in small to medium companies (including startups) is one of those things that CEOs equate to going to the dentist. Not only do they not like it, they are not good at it. There are a lot of very odd ideas at play here in the performance appraisal business — 360 degree appraisals […]

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Finding Inspiration With Thomas Jefferson

Big Red Car — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 19:10:54 +0000

This Christmas was great with the family — and, of course, My Perfect Granddaughter who will be two years old in ten days — assembled at The Homestead in Virginia. I had last been to The Homestead in 1969 when I went there to ski while a cadet at Virginia Military Institute. Not much has […]

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Inspiration — It’s Everywhere

Big Red Car — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:12:40 +0000

In life, we require inspiration to awaken us to the possibilities of the world. As a young man, I worked in construction during high school and college. I garnered some inspiration on the end of a shovel handle digging ditches. I worked for a general contractor at the Jersey Shore that built anything, but they […]

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Inspiration – Beginning a New Year

Big Red Car — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 17:56:35 +0000

Big Red Car here on a brilliant, sunny Thursday in the New Year. 2019, YOUR year! Every new year I look for inspiration and for inspiration for my clients. I always find inspiration in Churchill. Surprised? No, the guy saved the Western World from the scourge of the Nazis at a time when the English […]

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Inspiration, a Thimbleful, Please?

Big Red Car — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 12:22:43 +0000

Inspiration, Big Red Car? Big Red Car here on a crisp — 54F at 5:00 AM — Texas morning. Ahhh, fall in Texas is a grand thing. So, a year ago, The Boss is talking to one of his CEO clients and they get talking about a new hire. This CEO runs an excellent company […]

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Inspiration Is For Amateurs

Big Red Car — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 13:38:04 +0000

Big Red Car here in the rainy ATX. It is a wet, green world here. On the green Earth as it is in green Texas! The other day, The Boss was mumbling. He had read something that caught his attention. Inspiration is for amateurs; professionals strap in, get to work and grind it out. The […]

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Martin Luther King’s Education

Big Red Car — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:58:40 +0000

Big Red Car here on Martin Luther King Day in the ATX. Bright sunny day and going to be 70F before the day is done. So The Boss likes to know the backgrounds of successful people and one of his interests is to know how they were educated. It is often a critical insight into […]

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The Historic Impact of Twitter

Big Red Car — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 18:08:40 +0000

Big Red Car here. Ahh, finally a bit of sun here in the ATX. Not going to be too warm but going to be very bright and sunny. And it is niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice! On Earth as it is in Texas, ya’ll! So The Boss has been thinking about Twitter. He likes it as a communication mechanism […]

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Going the Distance — Diana Nyad

Big Red Car — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:05:23 +0000

Big Red Car here. Lovely day in the ATX, hot, sunny and wholesome. OK, maybe not wholesome but I was running out of superlatives. So what? If you’re talking about Diana Nyad and her 110 mile swim from Cuba to Florida, you are talking superlatives, my friend. Where to start? 1. Age is not an […]

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