Here are some lists to simplify over 400 articles — In my five and a half months reign of terror on Medium.com I’m humbled to have almost 900 fans. I’m pleased that there are those who enjoy my almost daily musing on this platform. You’re the fire that keeps me engaged and in constant improvement mode. As I approach 400…

It’s that first impression. — Regular readers will remember that at one time in my life I was a personnel manager for a 10-store chain in San Diego. Hiring and firing people always seemed like a coin flip. If I hire this person, will they do great or will they fail to make it past…

Everything in Montana is big — Even our snow — We’ve all heard the old saying, “It’s not the heat; it’s the humidity.” As of this writing, most of the US is experiencing warmer than usual temperatures. Ninety degrees is a ho-hum temp in most parts of our nation. Being almost a mile above sea level, and a somewhat arid…

What’s Real and What’s Fake? Inquiring Minds Want To Know — I moved to Bozeman, Montana in 1993. At that time Bozeman was about 12,000. Not big not small. Kissing the smog layer of San Diego goodbye for the clean clear Big Skies of Montana. Today the Bozeman population is over 50,000. Median homes in the Gallatin Valley are priced right…

Where Are You Going? — When I was growing up, I thought everyone knew what they wanted to be when they grew up. For some reason, — I never did. If you told the people I went to high school with that I would someday write three books, one a university textbook, have a talk…

You are. You just didn’t know the definition. — The title of this daily blog might suggest being on the lookout for a creepy guy checking you out with a telescope. Sorry while that is creepy, it’s not the kind of “scope creep” I’m talking about. Definition of “Scope Creep” While almost every business has experienced “scope creep” at one time or another…

You’ll Do Something Else — It’s almost impossible to swing a cat and not hit a story about jobs and the possibility of those jobs being lost to AI (Artificial Intelligence). Many full-time writers like me have expressed concern that the days of human beings creating books and articles are numbered — AI will be…

Do you feel safe where you live? — (Due to the length of this story, you might want to use the “read” feature located next to my name above.) We all remember the events of 2019–20, with Covid deaths increasing and coast-to-coast riots in Seattle, Portland, Kenosha, Minneapolis, Baltimore, New York, and Washington, D.C. I remember the destruction…

Are You Really in Charge? — You get an idea. You don’t know if it will work, but you take the chance. You pour your heart and soul into it. It might start with a card table and a phone. Then it morphs into orders and then more, and more orders, equipment, and a facility. And…