by Mark Edge | Jul 18, 2024 | Employee Productivity
I have a friend who is a retired athletic coach. She coached girls’ basketball for 40 years in Texas. She told me recently about the best piece of advice she ever received. She was taking a job in a small town in South Texas, and before she began, one of the boys’...
by Mark Edge | Jul 5, 2024 | Employee Productivity
I was thirteen years old, and it was May during my seventh-grade year. Our coach had gathered all of us seventh-grade boys in the high school field house, where the school’s only weight-lifting machine was located. It was hot as blazes. There was no air...
by Mark Edge | Jun 27, 2024 | Employee Productivity
My son has a good singing voice and is musically talented. Still, I’ve never pushed him to get into the singing business. It is a tough field that can be very hard and discouraging. A case in point is a kid named Aaron. He was twenty and had been singing in...
by Mark Edge | Jun 21, 2024 | Employee Productivity
Have you ever heard of the word chutzpah? It is an old Yiddish word that describes someone who is audacious or has a lot of gall. Perhaps the best way to define it is through an old Yiddish joke. There was a man who murdered both of his parents. At his trial, he...
by Mark Edge | Jun 6, 2024 | Emotional Health
Will was a civil servant in the U.S. Government. He had a friend who was stuck in a dead-end job. He was bored with his work. He had a young family, including some toddlers, and wanted to expand his horizons before it was too late. He was considering law school and...