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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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