I started to read a great book that was given to me by Ken King, CEO of the Calgary Flames, who graciously gave 30 or 40 minutes of time to me a couple of months ago to chat about Servant Leadership. In my blog, I have spoken about Servant Leadership in ...
Monthly Archives: November 2008
A Day With MSPU – Managed Services and a Managed Life!
My last full day in California was invested in meeting some of the great folks at Managed Services education experts MSPU just down the street from Disneyland. Erick and I spent the day together chatting about the state of the IT industry and managed services in general. MSPU is hands down the leader is ...
Realizing my dreams in San Diego
My time in San Diego is coming to an end this morning, we will be making the drive up I-5 to Anaheim today to do Disneyland and other things. I will have the joy of spending parts of the day with my good friend Erick Simpson, some of you may know ...
Because Everyone In Canada Lives In An Igloo.
My good buddy Erik Thorsell from Minneapolis sent this to me and I could resist to throw it up on my blog. I can't believe what some people think of Canada. I just don't get it, do folks out there really struggle to understand new cultures or different places in the ...
Tijuana, Mexico and reflections
We survived our day in Tijuana and had an awesome experience touring around Northwestern Mexico's border town with Southern California. What a great experience and lots of learning today as my family and I toured around TJ. What did I learn? The art of sales was very clear. These guys that run the ...
Time with the family
Over the next few days my posts will be very sporadic and may not even occur as I turn my time and attention to my family and very close friends in Southern California. Yesterday I took some time out and walked along the beach in San Diego, it was a very happening place because of the ...
Canada is not America’s attic
My good buddy and former HTG3 member Steve Riat said something that I know that he was joking around and just piling on the friendly Canadian insults in our HTG3 meeting this week in Burbank about Canada being America's attic. I know Steve well and have a tremendous ...
I have changed my MSN Messenger/Windows Live Account
Just a quick announcement, if you are linked to me on MSN Messenger or Windows Live, I have changed my account to reflect my home email address. If we were linked in the past or if you would like to link up with me on MSN Messenger you can connect to me by clicking the ...
The first casualty
Yesterday, the first real casualty hit on my decision to leave IT Matters and to be 100% open on this, I really was expecting it to happen. My HTG group decided to retain IT Matters as the member company and rightfully so, it is the ...
Coast to Coast
The entire day on Wednesday my mind kept replaying one of my favourite instrumentals by the German Metal band "Scorpions". There track called "Coast to Coast" is exactly what I have done today. Watch the video or listen to it as you read.
A Day in Washington, DC
This is my second time in DC this year. I was chatting with my good friend Dave Sobel (the king of virtualization) last night here at the Gaylord Resort & Convention Center about coming to DC. Up until June of this year I have ...