The other day I got a panicked text message from a client. “Help me Pam. I am totally scared. Call me.” Expecting to hear the worst, I called him right back. “What’s going on?” I said. “I just got asked to take on a big project and I am scared out of my mind” he […]
My three-year old son Josh looked at my husband and I the other day. "Mom — you, Angela and I are yellow. Dad and brother Jeffery are brown." Looking at me, Darryl tried to explain the color differentiation from his traditional Navajo perspective. "Son – you and Angela are made up of both your Mama […]
Whatever your business, job situation, balance of your 401(k), personal situation or region of the world, you have to admit that 2008 was a doozy. It certainly was for us here in the Slim household. We had more exciting and terrifying rides in my husband’s business than either of us had ever experienced. The perfect […]
I was on a coaching call with a client. We were reviewing his target market, business model and strategy. At about halfway through the call, his voice got choked with emotion. "I have just put so much effort and energy into this and am not seeing the results I expected. I know I am meant […]
I was on a coaching call with a client. We were reviewing his target market, business model and strategy. At about halfway through the call, his voice got choked with emotion. "I have just put so much effort and energy into this and am not seeing the results I expected. I know I am meant […]
Many of us have talked at length about the pursuit of a meaningful, rewarding career. We have lived through tyrannical bosses, mergers and acquisitions, exhausting work and travel schedules and various states of financial panic. We saw the job market explode and shrivel before we knew what to do about it, and comforted far too […]
Many of us have talked at length about the pursuit of a meaningful, rewarding career. We have lived through tyrannical bosses, mergers and acquisitions, exhausting work and travel schedules and various states of financial panic. We saw the job market explode and shrivel before we knew what to do about it, and comforted far too […]
I asked my friends on Twitter the other day (in typical 140 character limit fashion): "question for day: given financial meltdown, where are healthy corners of market? needed services, useful products, etc." In addition to useful answers like "anything that serves the wellness/lifestyle needs of boomers, driven by unchangeable demo shift, not short term trend […]
I have a theory I am postulating in The Book that once people disconnect from the "my corporate job sucks and I am trapped in cubicle hell" world and start a successful entrepreneurial venture that they naturally become more compassionate and interested in social change. I think this is due to a number of reasons: […]
This weekend during a wonderful trip to Sedona, I was talking with my son Jeffery about his paintings in progress. He had done a lot of work on a number of canvases, but found finishing the paintings was difficult. So I recalled the advice I wrote about a few months ago from my friend Ramit […]