READY OR NOT … HERE IT COMES!  So, do you remember playing “hide and seek” when you were a kid?  I get to occasionally play with my grandkids even now – a true sign of a timeless game.  The game involves covering your eyes and counting to ten before you come looking for those who […]

Does anyone remember that year?  I do.  It actually ushered in a new form of PIVOT … maybe the first major, widespread technology-driven anxiety attacks and hyper-mania.  The role of IT shifted and CIO’s got a seat at the table in some of the C-Suites.   Were you one of the many staying up extra late and wondering … […]

Do you know anyone who operates in an everyday normal state of PANIC where EVERYTHING is touted as mission critical urgent and you can’t really tell what is truly important?  Reminds me a little bit of the children’s story about CHICKEN LITTLE who constantly ran around shouting … THE SKY IS FALLING!  Well, one of the […]

I recently used this image in one of my client off-sites to illustrate the on-going challenge that they (and so many others) face every day in their battles to SHAPE THE FUTURE while surviving the swirl and gravitational pull of each day.  Whew, it gets exhausting I know.  Ahh, if only the merry-go-round would just spin horizontally […]