Author: Sage

Here’s a pretty interesting general marketing blog I just came across. Seth Godin: Agent of Change

many of today’s young workers are massively disaffected with their jobs and often constitute a negative influence on the whole workplace. I was reading a Management for Dummies book put out in 1996. It’s all about empowerment, encouragement, being an effective leader. It’s been common knowledge for sometime that managers must be compassionate, empathetic, encouraging…

If you aren’t familiar with EBSQ artists, but like art, I highly recommend you check out the scene. You can search these artists on ebay by typing in EBSQ and you can go to ebsqart.com. This is a group of self representing artists. What this means is that they are basically cutting out the middle…

Order Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ and receive a FREE Bible, only at GospelDirect.com Ok. This is the last I’m going to do of this. Here are the different versions I’ve collected, verses 4-8 side by side: NAB – New American Bible version ESV – English Standard Version KJV – King James Version…

Order Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ and receive a FREE Bible, only at GospelDirect.com Of I Corinthians 13:1-13, these are the versus that really speak to me: “4: Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; 5: it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own…

Order Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ and receive a FREE Bible, only at GospelDirect.com If you aren’t aware, I’m in a string quartet. I play the cello. I do a lot of weddings. I would imagine I’ve done a couple hundred at this point in my career. I can safely say, in my…

OK. Before I go any further down this spiritual path, I need to make a policy statement. I am in no way Christian. I am much closer to atheist than most spirituality. I happen to like Buddhism, although I know very little about it. One of the reasons I like it is because it is…

In Tuesday’s yoga, I realized my own Nothingness that I talked about seeing in Indiana here:Sage Lewis: Allegory of the Cave and God I felt strongly being the observer watching the entire world, starting from my mind and body, it all being completely out of my control. I don’t own any of it. I may…

Something that I don’t think was covered, or at least I don’t recall it off hand, in Think and Grow Rich, is that in order to become rich, part of the mental shift is that you must become a taker. Maybe this isn’t an issue for many people, but I realized that I’m not a…

I don’t really know how I manage to do this to myself. But I am apparently addicted to yet another thing. Not that I didn’t know this already, really. But I really felt it this morning. Today is the first day of my 3 day vacation. I woke up this morning at 5:30 and I…

Are you into gymnastics? Or do you have a child who is into gymnastics? Well if you do, you probably are in need of gymnastic supplies and equipment. Surprisingly, there isn’t a lot available online for gymnastics equipment. But take a look at Flying High Enterprises for gymnastics equipment They’ve got stuff like: Indo Boards…

I was just recommended this course by someone who left me a comment in another blog post. I’ve spent just a couple minutes looking at the page. But I can see its usefulness. In a nutshell, it’s managing people based on their Myers-Briggs results. It’s something I’ve tried to do in an unstructured way. This…

Here’s my boy on father’s day: Now what could possibly be better than that.

As part of my recent money theme, here are some Money Quotes. Of these, these were the ones that suited my current interests: Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence. ~Max Amsterdam Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people…

OK. Here’s how I have learned to accomplish goals. You do a CBA – a Cost Benefits Analysis for doing something and you do one for not doing something. Having a CBA and reading it regularly when you think things are getting hard will often get you through the tough times. This has worked for…

The journey of business never ceases to entertain me. Where I mentally am now in business is very different than where I was even a month ago. Without getting into the specifics as to how I’ve gotten to this point, I have two goals now at SageRock. The company is now five years old… every…

This is an interesting article discussing blog policies at work. Here’s an interesting example policy: Jen recently helped draft the company’s first-ever blog policy. The policy says, in part, that employees can’t violate the privacy or publicity rights of another, can’t personally attack employees, authors, customers, vendors or shareholders and can’t post material that is…

Yesterday was Indiana’s first official photo shoot. Here’s all the proofs – all 216 of ’em. If you have any particular favorites let me know in the comments section. Indiana Lewis Photo Shoot – June 11, 2005

62. Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, Ohio 78. Akron, Ohio And then, to make matters worse: 16. Columbus, Ohio 5. Toledo, Ohio There’s no reason why Akron and Cleveland can’t make it in the top 20. If every technogeek in the area volunteered their time to put in one wifi point in their favorite pub or coffee shop we’d…

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