Chris Matthews was just commenting that Benazir Bhutto's assassination was "a reminder of the dangerous world we all live in." In that moment, it struck me: we all live in a world of our own making. Oh, I don't mean literally, though fans of The Secret may disagree....
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Just Flip a Coin Instead
Sometimes decisions aren't worth the cost of deciding Click to hear the original Get-it-Done Guy podcast. [Subscribe at iTunes (search for "Get It Done Guy") or http://GetItDone.QuickAndDirtyTips.com] This article is a reprint of an episode of my new podcast. You can...
Marshall Goldsmith on Peer Coaching (part 1)
Marshall Goldsmith is an amazing executive coach. He has worked with several Fortune 500 CEOs and is currently a best-selling author (#1 on Amazon.com in the Leading People category). He has developed a couple of peer coaching techniques that will let you and any...
Happy Sunset day! (It’s the day of the earliest sunset)
Greetings, and happy Sunset Day to all!This is the day of the earliest sunset of the year in mid-northern latitudes; after today, the sunsets begin, ever so slowly, to be later, according to clock time.If you aren't familiar with this interesting phenomenon, you can...
Upgraded my Macintosh. Super-stressful day. … Not!?
Bought a new Mac. Wanted to duplicate the config on my old one. Figured it would be 16 hours of reinstalling, reconfiguring, etc. Turned on the new Mac. It asked if I was migrating from an existing machine. I said Yes. It said "Copying..." Copying happened. Then the...
More social networking?
My goodness. Now "Plaxo Pulse" wants me, and it insists on updating me daily that my friends and acquaintances added each other as friends, or poked someone, or whatever verbs Plaxo monitors. All I know is that if all these people actually picked up the phone to call...
Get-It-Done Guy makes it to #1 business, #50 overall on iTunes!
Ok, so I'm really happy. The Get-it-Done Guy is filling a real need—at least, people are subscribing! See this link for screen shots of the Get-it-Done Guy on iTunes today.
I was right. I just love being right.
Cool! I love having my insecurities soothed by being right. And heck, it's just plain fun to feel right. I wrote a blog post in 2006: https://www.steverrobbins.com/blog/wells-fargo-do-record-profits-herald-disaster/ In it, I look at publicly available figures for...
The “Get-it-Done Guy” is now live!!
I'm extremely happy to report that my new podcast has launched! Check out: The Get-It-Done Guy's Quick and Dirty Tips to Work Less and Do More at http://getitdone.quickanddirtytips.com. You can subscribe via iTunes by doing this: Start iTunes Search the iTunes store...
Will the Tragedy of the Commons doom social networking?
Is Social Networking a Tragedy of the Commons? I'm starting to think so. They're pretty cool. They let you share yourself and your life with your friends. You find out more about them, they find out more about you, you swap cool stuff. Life is good. And therein lies...