by Jeff Price | Dec 20, 2013 | Learning from Celebrities, Life & Career Success
In the 1999 it movie American Beauty, actor Kevin Spacey playing Lester Burn ham quotes this line while masturbating in the shower one morning. It’s a disturbing scene that captures everything wrong with his life. The movie was rather depressing and seemed to...
by Jeff Price | Dec 19, 2013 | Learning from Celebrities, Life & Career Success
My wife is one of the most thoughtful and grateful people I know. It tends to come out most during the holidays. I am absolutely astonished every year with the amount of gift-giving, card-writing and thank you-saying that goes on, in many cases to people I...
by Jeff Price | Dec 16, 2013 | Learning from Celebrities, Life & Career Success
Have you ever noticed that once someone or something becomes’ successful, “management,” (i.e. The Suits) tend to jump in and screw it all up? The U.S. Navy SEALs have a term for this – they call it the “bright idea fairy.” Alan...
by Jeff Price | Dec 14, 2013 | Learning from Celebrities, Life & Career Success
In reading VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV’s First Wave, one thing that particularly stood out was that when she started, Martha Quinn didn’t know what she was doing. But, that didn’t stop her. Martha Quinn – The Future’s So Bright I often...
by Jeff Price | Dec 13, 2013 | Learning from Celebrities, Life & Career Success
Sometimes the people you think you’re not going to like, end up being your lifelong friends. What I thought was particularly interesting is that despite how well all of the VJ’s gelled on air, like most every other workgroup there was plenty of...
by Jeff Price | Dec 12, 2013 | Learning from Celebrities, Life & Career Success
Any trivia buff worth their salt knows the answer to this question: What was the first video ever played on MTV? And if you’re really sharp, you’ll even know the group. (answer at bottom of post). I thought we would take an interesting departure from the...
by Jeff Price | Dec 10, 2013 | Business and Management, Life & Career Success
Crisis provides clarity. Crisis reveals character. Crisis shows who is going to step up. A can also either destroy a business, or it can burn away the underbrush of a bloated and listless organization, leaving fertile ground for a new organization to emerge. To handle...
by Jeff Price | Dec 7, 2013 | Business and Management, Life & Career Success
Going through the facilitation training to become certified to train Franklin Covey’s leadership module series plus my time in the workforce has given me the opportunity to observe a lot of management strategies meant to increase efficiencies and provide a...
by Jeff Price | Dec 5, 2013 | Business and Management, Life & Career Success
For a short period of time I employed a millennial. Frustrated the hell out of me! But, I learned something very valuable. At one point I had asked her to sit in on a seminar at a conference and take notes. I was at the same conference but was sitting in on another...
by Jeff Price | Dec 2, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Basic Success Principles, Life & Career Success
It is the hardest appointment to keep. It is the one with yourself. But that is the foundation of “the one thing.” Dr. Stephen Covey in the 7 habits of highly effective people called it habit 3: first things first. Making an appointment with yourself and...
