Part 2 of 7 By Al Mills Six Types of Working Genius:  Wonder The Six Types of Working Genius uses the acronym WIDGET.  Widget represents six categories of work that are necessary for almost any type of project.  Usually, people discover that two of those categories really inspire and energize them.  Read on to learn about the first category, Wonder. The Lewis Carroll classic Alice in Wonderland paints a fantastic picture of a world in

Part 1 of 7 By Al Mills A short while ago, I had the privilege of working with an Operations Team leader named Jean.  Jean and I had a fantastic rapport and she did a superb job of leading a team of 12 diverse people responsible for various aspects of a conference during which we would host 400 to 600 people.  This included food, refreshments, registrations, technical requirements, IT, facility, and serving guests.  The event

By Al Mills If you are a seriously nerdy Star Trek fan you might recognize the title of this blog entry.  It’s from the second season of the original Star Trek series and Captain Kirk is incapacitated while an inexperienced officer commands the Enterprise.  Predictably, the inexperienced officer makes an absolute mess of things and the experienced Captain Kirk rushes to the bridge, and shows why his experience is so valuable.  He diffuses the situation

By Al Mills Christmas 2024 is upon us.  It seems to me that every year it comes faster and faster, hardly taking the tree down one year, and then putting it up the next.  From the time I was a kid, I loved setting up my train set under the tree with a small village.  I loved setting up the train scene which looked like a Christmas straight out of the 1950’s.  On top of

By Al Mills In 1979 my parents purchased a farmhouse and an orchard field in Nova Scotia.  The house had been empty for a couple of years and it showed.  It was like a time capsule.  In the basement was a large wood furnace and a closet full of preserves in glass bottles (most of which fell victim to plinking sessions).  Dark wainscotting lined the hallways and equally dark were the banister and stairs.  Upstairs