Roger A. Reid's Blog

How Many Times Will You Have to Fail Before Finally Getting it Right? Maybe a Lifeline Would Help ...

Ready to leave your corporate job and strike out on your own? Before you turn in your resignation and order new business cards, take some time to think long and hard about your motives ...

Like them or not, meetings are the life-blood of the corporation. Whether it’s implementing a new organizational process or procedure, a strategy session, dissecting a team report, goal setting, policy changes, introducing new employees, or disseminating information, a meeting is still the preferred method to accomplish the task ...

In my senior year of high school, one of my teachers told me when I was much older, I would look back and remember three or four days that had been the most important — celebrations, landmark birthdays, accomplishments — all sorts of occasions that ultimately became the major events that shaped my life.

Regardless of the number of times we change our employment, there is the underlying, fundamental premise that we’re boosting our career trajectory, that our need to leave one employer for another is motivated by the hope and promise of something better — improved working conditions, more money, or greater opportunity for advancement.

The so-called art of argument is taught in law school and debate classes. In some circles, its thought to be a legitimate tool of getting to a better answer, to generate new ideas, and motivate new thinking that would otherwise not have happened. My advice?

I see this question asked over and over again in blog posts and magazine articles. Its become a popular exercise in perspective. Heres the premise: We know the end of our lives is inescapable, so lets take a critical look at the way were living ...

Upon the conclusion of both sides presenting their evidence, the judge sends the jury into a private room to deliberate and determine the guilt or innocence of the accused. The jurors review the testimony, consider the facts, and discuss the circumstances.

How good is good enough? Could life be ready to offer you more happiness, financial success, a great relationship if you were willing to commit to doing whats necessary to receive it?

There was a time, not too long ago, when I constantly told myself there were things I needed to do tasks I should accomplish. Knowing the importance of having written goals, I added each new ambition to my list of objectives, then reduced them into small, achievable steps.