Since I've decided to retire, I'm finding I work more hours than I did when I was a corporate hostage. The good news is what I do is not work, and I'll always be on top of myself because you cannot downsize a team of one. The only organics I can hug and pet are the cats, and they will not report me to HR...as long as there are plenty of treats. Here's a short bio I've been using on the books. (more…)
I just received this review of my first novel and don't get many chances to toot my horn these days. It seems retirement and being left unsupervised gets the creative juices flowing. Am pretty pumped! My publisher tagged the genre as horror and sci-fi. Am good with sci-fi, but am not a horror fan and felt this book was more paranormal and not so scary...just unexplainable...as entities from a different dimension can be. But hey, I'm not a publisher, just a grunt author. Not sure I have a genre box…
This update was made on April 13, 2023. Since I retired, the Point of Work Assessment (PWA) Workshop series has been discontinued, and the entire contents with worksheets and instructions are now only available in a new book I wrote earlier this year: "Confessions of a Performance Ninja: Optimizing Workforce Performance @ Point-of-Work." This book embodies the transformational aspects of change that come with any Deployment - Implementation - Adoption - Sustainability initiative, whether large or small. The confessions offered in this book came from things that worked well and…
This post is an annual event I usually post on Maunday Thursday to lift up tomorrow being Good Friday and what it now means to me. The original posting was also on a Thursday eleven years ago. I reflected on this eleventh version of this Good Friday morning from within the chaos of a world more confused than ever. The story never really changes, and the confusion only seems to deepen. I may edit a bit as writers do to keep it current, but I appreciate it more every year.…
GREAT" things are popping up lately, like the Great Resignation, Great Retirement, Great Reshuffle, and Great Reboot, are a few examples. I am not swayed by the hype because these all point to one common denominator – Change...and the need to LEAD it. I believe we see the side-effects surface in the form of a Great Convergence of Thought and Action and forms influencers that directly impact Culture. In other words, resignations, retirements, and reshuffling within and among organizations are driving the need for a strategic re-think and adopting tactical…
I've just launched a Quora site to support interactive Q&A activity from the new book "Confessions of a Performance Ninja: Optimizing Workforce Performance@ Point-of-Work." I sent out a few invitations directly, but I welcome anyone who would like to participate in Q&A with a largely unsupervised, retired (sort of), performance consultant to join the site. Here is a sample of a recent Q&A exchange with a client who purchased the book for their Center of Excellence Learning team. (more…)
"Dreamscape Conspiracy" is live on Amazon in both eBook & Paperback formats. . Dreamscape Conspiracy Dr. Cara Williams, a 32-year-old Clinical Psychologist, has a dark secret she fights to repress. Being the lead researcher on a controversial Dream Therapy project called Dream Weaver, she finds satisfaction in her work, that is, until an accident in the lab rewrites the rules of Dream Therapy. Further complications surface when the core technology known as Dreamscape can not only capture dreams for analysis but can also transmit previously captured dreams to other research…
Hi Gary, One of our forum attendees had an additional question for you but ran out of time to ask. Would you mind answering her question below? QUESTION: Since the PC [performance consulting] role does have a lens to performance, not just training, our recommendations may cross into other disciplines, e.g., OCM, Process Improvement, and Communication. How have you established your role with these different groups so as not to be viewed as overstepping into their discipline? (more…)
This is the first draft at the cover and back cover for my new book "Dreamscape Conspiracy". Plan to launch on Amazon in a week or so. Welcome thoughts from anyone interested. Thanks! (more…)
All of my beta readers love the story, my first work of fiction. Mirror Mirror is now in paperback on Amazon. Here's the description of the book. (more…)