You know someone who got divorced?  Did they rush into the marriage?  Did you and your friends talk about how fast they got together, engaged and married? If marriage is the most important relationship you are going to have in your life (if you choose to), your employment relationships have got to be second. I think of all the things in our lives we spend valuable time considering before entering into a relationship with: Real Estate Agent Bank Cell Carrier Home Contractors vacation plans and yet I still hear about agencies hiring people in record time.  

When you manage people and do your best to help guide an organization you often turn to analogy to help get the point across. In the past, especially when teaching students of interactive, I use the analogy of a house when speaking to the structure of a digital property or marketing strategy. HTML is the structure, CSS is the paint etc… it’s not a hard concept to grasp. Often time’s the people I share this with latch onto the story pretty quickly and can hold on with both hands. But the analogy of building the house falls apart when describing […]

I sat at a red light the other day. I was well out of position. I was in the far right lane of a one way street, needing to make a left at the next intersection, another one way street. Truth be told, the left lane was so long that when I coasted up to it, I went to the far right to get the poll position. I sat at the light, gripping the clutch in anticipation, my focus completely on the cross traffic light high on my right, waiting to see it turn yellow then red. That would mean […]