Anna Marie Bustos – Work Ethic … Handed Down
Quiet, humble, almost invisible. That is what the housekeeper was and demonstrated as she came into our room. Months before that day, Connie and I decided we would travel to West Virginia and experience the history of The Greenbriar. If you don’t know the name, this hotel has quite a history—both as a private entity […]
Read MoreA Different Kind of Trust …
Trust. A word that tends to get tossed around a good bit, it gets taken advantage of and totally obliterated in some instances. Door locks. Passwords. Iris scanning. Bio-Metrics in general. All to “Verify, but Trust.” My longtime friend and author, Jeffrey Gitomer wrote an excellent book on the subject – Little Teal Book of […]
Read MoreWithin An Inch …
One day last week I was on the phone and talking with a friend and the subject of “The AirTight Creed” arose. The Creed is a document: A collection of values and principles that my company, AirTight Mechanical, together with my wife, formed back in 1999, worked hard to operate around and to help guide […]
Read MoreTruly, A Gut Feeling
Abdominal Pain – Those two words were enough to send me to the hospital. Being 59 years old at the time, I had been around long enough to experience some pain—enough pain really to understand the difference between playing injured versus playing hurt. This, in my calculation, was of the injury variety. I was admitted on […]
Read MoreA Rearview Mirror versus The Windshield
A ratio of 96:1 seems pretty lopsided in general—meaning the windshield is ninety-six times larger than a rearview mirror in most automotive applications, yet we spend a considerable amount of time gazing backwards in our lives. For transparency sake, I am sitting nineteen floors above the city in Asheville, NC in my friends condominium, I […]
Read MoreIt Has Been A While …
The world has evolved, podcasts have come, podcast has been recorded, and they are a blast, but I was ready to write again. It’s been a while. I wrote a ton to get the two books completed, both deepKnowledge and deeperKnowledge. But after taking a keyboard break following the release of the first one, and […]
Read MorePassion, Purpose, Survive & Thrive
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When did things start? That is a question that I have pondered more than once over the last few years. What started when I was a little kid watching his father hone his craft has, over the last fifty-eight or so years, turned into a life-long passion.
Read MoreWork Culture and Damn, It’s Hard
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What an interesting and thought provoking topic. Over the last month or so I have been really digging into, learning about and analyzing some of the cultures that I am, have been and want to continue to be a part of. Reading from Ben Horowitz’s latest book entitled, What You Do Is Who You Are […]
Read MoreA Tale of Two Five-Thirties
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5:30 PM: It is crazy. Trying to “wrap-it-up” with two or three calls on the way home, small and large celebrations from the day and (re)connections finally made after a handful of texts and voicemails. What to do for dinner? What city are you in? Are the girls fed? What time will you be home? […]
Read MoreMore or Less
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Inbox me, ping me, message me, drop me a note, etc … Do you recall a time in your life that there were so many ways to contact someone? I doubt it. With the advent of, and now our total immersion in technology, think of all the ways, just within your phone, laptop, or device […]
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