by Mark Edge | Dec 13, 2023 | Employee Productivity
December is the time when people traditionally contemplate making New Year’s Resolutions. I have some thoughts on that. First, don’t make New Year’s Resolutions; make New Year’s Goals. I’m being a stickler here, but resolutions have become a topic associated with...
by Mark Edge | Dec 7, 2023 | Employee Productivity
Imagine this. Over time, you have grown functionally deaf. Now what? You dream of inventing a machine that can record and reproduce sound. Now what? You dream of creating a machine that can record and play music. Now what? You dream of taking photographs, moving them...
by Mark Edge | Nov 29, 2023 | Emotional Health
I was reading a biography of George Washington recently and came across a passage that intrigued me. The writer spoke of George Washington’s happy return to Mt. Vernon after completing his second presidential term. For over twenty years, George’s life had been...
by Mark Edge | Nov 22, 2023 | Emotional Health
Growing up, I had always heard about Lou Gehrig’s famous speech as a dying man: “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this Earth….” But I had never read the extensive context of that story until a few years ago when I bought a copy of Luckiest Man:...
by Mark Edge | Nov 16, 2023 | Employee Productivity
I am a big fan of the new book Stay Sane in an Insane World by Greg Harden. If you haven’t heard about it, it is written by a sports psychologist who worked for several decades at the University of Michigan. Among the athletes Harden impacted were Heisman Trophy...
