In October, the honor of leading our marketing team was bestowed upon me. I have no formal marketing training, (no I don’t count the Bachelors of Business Administration – Mktg Major from 20 years ago) and not much in the way of design and mass communication skills. Wholly unqualified in a traditional evaluation, I brought […]
Read MoreSomewhere between midnight and the waking hour of a cold January Sunday night, Tom Morrow jolted upright in his bed. Surrounded by the complete darkness of his room, he brushed the long callous tipped fingers of his right hand through his hair while alert and shiny bird-like eyes shifted to the right, the left, and […]
Read MoreEver since my wife and I got our dog, Walter, 6 years ago, we’ve ordered his dog food off Amazon. It’s slightly cheaper than buying it at the store and delivered right to our door. We had never considered changing it up. There was no reason to. That is until last month when we decided […]
Read MoreI don’t have razor-sharp technical skills. I’m not the guy for writing dynamometer programs, developing analytics logic and dashboards or creating visually engaging communications. I’m kept around to strategize and make decisions. I’ve always liked to solve problems; in fact, I have an often-annoying tendency to seek and point them out. Presently few of us […]
Read MoreBefore the sun rose to spread mid-July warmth over the two-story farmhouse set on an 80-acre plot somewhere in middle Wisconsin, the seven-year-old occupant of a small second-floor bedroom was already awake. The skinny kid, Kenny with tousled dark hair, a farmer’s tan, and eager eyes, had nearly jumped into knee torn jeans, a T-shirt […]
Read MoreThe other day my partner Meg and I took a long walk down 10th street on the south side of Milwaukee with a big package in our hands. It was a 3ft chocolate Tyrannosaurus Rex wrapped in gold wrapping paper for our good friend Johnathon. (He really likes dinosaurs.) When we arrived at his house, […]
Read MoreYou’re essential, and you’re out there, open, doing the work – or – you can work from a computer, which in this day and age means you can probably work anywhere. I’m the latter. I’m remote, my team is remote, and we carry on our roles as best we can (and sometimes better) from a […]
Read MoreNo matter who you are or what role you play in the world it’s different now than it was two weeks ago. By different I mean changed. Change is difficult. The change we face now is a crisis; a pandemic. It’s disruptive, destructive, unpredictable, and scary. What can we do? Change with it as best […]
Read MoreIt’s issue 450 of REMAN U. I was hoping to do something special – a really momentous article, or maybe just one written by Captain Reman himself. But alas, it’s challenging times we’re in. I’m writing this from a table in my home; my son (the Taylor Swift fan) is eating oatmeal beside me in […]
Read MoreI’ve never liked Taylor Swift. (Bear with me.) When she first arrived on the music scene, she was a little bit country, and I was a lot-a-bit rock ‘n roll. As she got bigger and poppier, my musical tastes became more esoteric and indie (yes, I’m kind of a snob). I heard “Shake It Off” […]
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