Yesterday was a day of travel for me. Up at the crack of dawn, a few car rides and two plane rides and I was at my destination. My first flight was on a very small plane. My dad would call it a “puddle jumper.”…
I’ve mentioned before that prior to founding Calahan Solutions, Inc., I worked for a large consulting firm in the Chicago area. As I look back at those days, of course, I miss the people I worked with, but in my business I miss 1400. Do…
When you attend trade shows or networking meetings, do you later experience the business card pile up? Do you have great conversations and then get back to your office and either forget action steps or details from the conversation? Do you prefer to keep your…
Creativity with post-it notes has been happening for quite a while. In fact, the history of the 3M sticky note is that it is an adhesive experiment gone bad. After Mr. Silver created the weak adhesive, it took him years to figure out how to…
The question of “Where in the world does my time really go?” is often asked by frustrated business owners. You work hard and it seems that there are never enough hours in a day. Hello Brett and welcome. It’s nice to have you with us. …
Hello Jeff and welcome. It’s nice to have you with us. You are the Co-Founder & CEO. Tell me, what was the inspiration behind Springpad? When we got started a couple of years ago, we noticed that it was becoming increasingly difficult to separate the…
Let’s start with this thought: Effective / productive communication involves both the receiver of information understanding what is read and the writer being able to convey thoughts in a way that it can be understood. Right? In my client’s case his phone was hindering BOTH…
Paper Pile Elimination Trick 1 – Ask “What is the Next Action?” Think VERB. Rather than thinking of your papers in terms of a topic or a list of things that you need to do, think in terms of “next action.” You may have many…