On the heels of layoff announcements from mammoths like Amazon, Starbucks, Oracle, Nike, Carter's, and others, there’s a disturbing reflex in corporate life that makes me want to slam my head against a whiteboard. Quarterly numbers dip, shareholders twitch, and some...
How Gary Pica turned tough love into a lifelong friendship — and made me a better leader in the process This post marks a pretty special milestone — the 50th TruMethods/Winners Circle Peer Group meeting. Fifty. That’s half a century of meetings if you count them in...
Betrayal is one of those things you think you understand — until it happens to you. It’s not just pain. Pain has an endpoint. Betrayal lingers. It seeps into your trust, your judgment, your sleep. It makes you question your instincts — the very ones you’ve spent your...
The Sociopath’s National Anthem Every time someone says “Don’t take it personally — it’s just business,” an HR department gets its wings. Let’s stop pretending this phrase is some kind of stoic wisdom. It’s not. It’s a moral escape hatch for people who want to screw...
This is not your standard “Old Man Shakes Fist At Sky” rant. This is about the death of live music for most of the population. When I went to my first Rush show in 1980, I got great seats in the Red section of Maple Leaf Gardens for the whopping sum of 15 bucks...
The author reflects on being booked for a wedding that requires a lengthy drive due to the local religious leaders’ refusal to officiate for a gay couple. This experience reinforces their anti-religious stance and skepticism about future acceptance of LGBTQ+ individuals, influenced by growing conservative beliefs and moral interpretations rooted in religion.
I always felt like a bit of an imposter – that people’s expectations of me were far higher than I could ever achieve. But recent events have since brought me to the realization that I have left a positive mark on this earth – no matter how small – and that focusing on those things will lead me to a fulfilled future. So I am taking it seriously.
So I have a FB friend who today posted about the poor 13 year old girl in Brampton who died with COVID. The young lady who died was overweight, so of course that gives anyone the right to blame her for her predicament. My friend is a “Fitness Professional”, and she...
When I turned 36 in 2003, I wrote this brief blog on my family website rismania.com: “I’m so bald. And fat. I shouldn’t have skipped so many classes in high school. I shouldn’t have listened to my friend Corey when he dared me to jump in that river when I was 18 – my...
