The opportunity to read and the ready access to books is a tremendous gift. There was a time in my life when you would have been hard pressed to convince me of this, but the fact remains that books are a vital source of knowledge, information, and inspiration.
As you read these words on the page of a newspaper, magazine, or the screen of your computer, I am embarrassed to say that there was a time in my life when I couldn’t have stated emphatically that I had ever read an entire book, cover to cover. Ironically, I did not discover the gift of reading until after losing my sight. Now, as a blind person—thanks to high speed digitally-recorded books—I am able to read an entire book virtually every day. Exposure to these literally thousands of books has given me knowledge, wisdom, perspective, and virtually everything I have ever wanted in my life. Read More→
All of us are in the business of selling. Some people sell real estate, cars, investments, or any number of items we all have or want to have. While it’s obvious these people succeed or fail based on their selling skills, it’s less apparent but just as important that the rest of us also succeed or fail both in our personal and professional lives based upon our ability to sell.
Too many people in the workforce separate their lives into two separate and distinct categories. They compartmentalize their days into the hours of drudgery and clock watching that represents their job and the freedom that exists when they get to their own leisure and recreation time. 
The Internet and digital age have given rise to a new phenomenon. There are people who know enough to be dangerous, not only to themselves but to you and me as well. Beware of the articulate incompetent. These are people who can talk a good game but have little or no experience at applying the newly-found knowledge they espouse. 
All organizations and individuals have unique cultures and different methods of working toward accomplishing tasks. There is no right or wrong way to undertake a project, but people and organizations can be divided into two distinct categories that greatly affect their potential for success. 
One of the biggest challenges in a formal education is the struggle between creativity and conformity. Classroom educational experiences, by design, breed conformity. We are all taught to write, think, and process information the same way. While it is good to learn basic skills, conformity kills creativity. 
The world could be divided very simply into two distinct groups of people. There are people 
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