I “retired” from an IT engineering/management position when I was 42.  “Retired” in this context means that I stopped being an employee at other people’s companies.

Are you ready to take the leap and start your own business?

Are you thinking about starting a business, or have you recently started one and now think that you’ve gotten in over your head?

Okay, you’ve decided that implementing a CRM would make your lives easier.

Real talk - this post is mainly for me.  

If you wonder why clients will not work with you, or companies will not hire you, then this post is for you.  

We were recently faced with a business situation and used the six thinking hats to make our final decision.

Edward de Bono introduced the concept of lateral thinking in 1967.   Also called creative thinking, the process challenges people to solve problems by using more than logical reasoning (often called vertical thinking).

Several years ago, my engineering team was given a seemingly impossible task.  Design and implement an infrastructure upgrade in ⅛ of the time that we “needed”.  

Incomplete tasks cause cognitive tension that persists until you complete them.