I heard the greatest phrase today (destined to become part of my lexicon)that applies to so much of social media, particularly Linkedin: “Pitch slapped” Perfection. You know the drill…you get the request and immediately they launch into benefits, features and why you need them when you don’t even know them. …

I love my creative mind but when it kicks on at 2 a.m. I want to take it out and throw it across the room so I can sleep. It’s a gift, I know, to be able to fall asleep quickly and I do most of the time, at great…

How many hours do you think we spend in meetings in the United States annually? A few hundred? Ten thousand? The answer: 19,004…YEARS worth of time. Do the math: In the United States alone we have 220,000,000 meetings annually. Assuming each of those meetings were only one minute long (that…