Tag Archives: not business as usual

Introducing the Stewardship Table

Today I’m doing something I rarely do. I’m setting aside our usual Sunday conversation to tell you about something I’ve built. For years, I’ve talked about and shared with you ideas about things done in a better way. Recently, I changed the podcast’s name from The 5Cs to The 5Cs: Business. Climate. Leadership. Done Differently. […]

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Who Actually Gets Paid?

A gent called me a few months ago. He’d been selling online since the early eighties, one of the first people to do it, long before anyone called it internet selling. He’d since tried Amazon. Tried Facebook. Tried LinkedIn. Failed on all three. He wanted to know what he’d missed. It took me those same […]

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My plumber is licensed; my banking app isn’t

On September 1, the bank called to tell us $2,500 had left our account. We got the money back. It took most of the month, and more than six weeks later, I’m still cleaning up. But what has stayed with me isn’t the money. It’s who carries the cost when technology fails. Right now, that’s […]

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My Father Held Tight. I Let Go.

Ryan’s mom is a worrier.One day he asked her why she worried so much.“My mom was a worrier,” she said.And her mom?“Her too.”Now Ryan’s sister is a worrier. Think about that for a moment. His great-grandmother’s worry is living in his sister today. Nobody chose it. Nobody sat down and decided to pass it on. […]

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Have Your Reading Habits Changed?

I got myself (three pairs of) new glasses last month. Somewhere in the middle of the eye test and the final fitting pick-up, I realized something else had changed along with my eyesight. I’ve become almost impossibly picky about what I’ll actually read. A few years ago, my sister-in-law gave me a stack of romance […]

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