Beth Terry | August 31, 2007
“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work,” Peter Drucker so wisely observed. In the 30 years I’ve been in business, I’ve never seen a company that didn’t need a little tweaking at the top. It’s easy to bring in a trainer or speaker and ask them […]
Beth Terry | August 29, 2007
The movie/book “The Secret” isn’t really a secret. Everyone’s grandma used to say: “Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.”
I’m thinking “attraction” isn’t even the right word… maybe it should be called “The law of attention.”
Isn’t it true that paying attention to something makes it loom larger? Are we attracting or […]
Beth Terry | August 27, 2007
We turned off the Mamalahoa highway last night onto a back road. Coconut palms crowded tightly together, reaching over a hundred feet to find sun.
Rich jungle earth sent waves of familiar smells on the light breeze: guava, lilikoi, night-blooming cereus. Earthy bouquets full of mystery. I thought of ancestors walking these paths a thousand years […]
Beth Terry | August 21, 2007
“The fastest growing segment of the workforce is employees 27 and under.” So states an Executive Briefing from VersantWorks. So - where did these young employees and entrepreneurs get their values? What about the generation following them? As a society, we need to pay attention to the informal training our future is receiving.
MTV is […]
Beth Terry | August 20, 2007
It was early on in the listserv world. I was a member of several e-groups: online communities that blast e-mail to everyone who belongs. Unfortunately, I type pretty darn fast. And it’s only too easy to hit “send” immediately after closing some response. If you belong to these, you know the nickname of […]
Beth Terry | August 19, 2007
She was beautiful. A 20 year-old who had left the racetrack ten years earlier to work with autistic and special needs kids. Sired by Najinskys Secret, she had the spunk and class of a thoroughbred. She had been donated in the 1990’s to the ranch to work with kids, along with her equine partner, Contigo.
I […]
Beth Terry | August 16, 2007
The books are piling up on every available surface. I have at least four going at any given time. Management tomes and tombstones. Books about how to do it right and who really, really screwed it up.
A confluence of events has led me to think that most failures in personal and corporate life boil down […]
Beth Terry | August 14, 2007
There was a time, a long, long time ago, when you got an idea. You stretched — you reached — you pulled yourself up on your chubby little wobbly legs for the very first time. You took the biggest risk of your life to that point - and you walked.
Then you fell back on […]
Beth Terry | August 12, 2007
I used to think my mom was nuts. She cooked for her Shih Tzu every night. I wasn’t crazy about that dog, and I’m a dog lover. He was grumpy and would walk around mumbling to himself all the time. He looked like Winston Churchill after a long night of drinking.
Well, now I’m cooking […]
Beth Terry | August 10, 2007
Isn’t it amazing that great customer service is cause for surprise? Used to be it was a given we’d be treated with respect and understanding. These days it’s headline material.
A few weeks ago I posted about the snafu with USAA and my mortgage company TBW. USAA was wonderful. Elizabeth Conklyn, their National Exec VP of […]
The way I see it, Cactus is the most resilient plant in the desert. If you find yourself stuck out on the desert and you can get past the thorns, its fruit will save your life. The same goes for us human critters. If we can get past the thorns of our own life, what we find in our core will save us and sustain us.
