A framework I've used for years to help me acclimate to a new position is the one presented in this article. Using it, you can quickly hone in on the top priorities for your position and, if you follow the recommendations, you'll be one step closer to succeeding at your new job. Even if you've been in the job for a while, this framework can give you a new lens to view your organization and sharpen your priorities. The framework includes three sections, with the following goals:Peop...

If you're going to enter the world of consulting, you can't avoid the dreaded all-day meeting. In fact, you'd better learn to thrive in them or you'll be food for the sharks, even when they're in the form of the doubly dreaded all day conference call. I don't know about you, but I've heard enough synthetic welcomes from the goto lady to last a lifetime.

The Cleveland Browns have provided fans in northeast Ohio memories to last a lifetime. For the Garson family, those memories stretch over four generations, beginning with my grandparents and ending, for now, with my son, niece and nephew.Section 6 is less a football story than it is a story of family and hope born from years of Sundays, a story describing more than six decades of family traditions, traditions steeped in brown and orange.

Hali's story continues in this second volume of the Scales over Sangrithar trilogy. When the story resumes, Hali and his stalwart companions have left Pel Aesylle to search for the Humadin in the northern steppes, hoping they can point him in the direction of the the long lost earthsong, which holds the key to defeating the God-Emperor. .Back in the capitol, High Warden Avery Tavistern leads a growing resistance against the God-Emperor. With him are Tomello, a rogue; Celle, the Emp...

You'd think acquiring a smartphone a simple enough task, but it's a perilous path to tread. For your next contract, you'd be wise to consider a Faustian deal instead.

Generals are great men sometimes called upon to do terrible things and Hali, Lord Warden of Sangrithar's legions and cousin to God-Emperor Torval Waverider is a very great man. He has burned, pillaged and murdered for Torval. He knows it's wrong, but the magikal compulsion binding him to the Pearl Throne is unforgiving. Even the thought of disobedience brings immeasurable pain.Torval wields the god-fire, which was a symbol for everything bright and good in the empire until Arvyl th...

This story is an except from Spirit's Legacy, Volume 3 of the Scales over Sangrithar trilogy.Ankerrafang, a dragon, recounts the mythology of the Vanara to Hali, the trilogy's hero, and his campanions. A rather old and stodgy dragon, Ankerragfang tells the tale in a style bordering on biblical.

What, So What and Now what is a model used for years as part of the experiential learning cycle. Facilitators use it often to debrief group learning experiences. I've found the model helpful in other ways, specifically in improving people's analytical capabilities.

When Karl Milton accepted the job offer from the restaurant, he had no idea that Caldwell Van Buren worked there also. Karl hadn't seen Caldwell since grade school and to tell the truth, hadn't missed him one bit. If he'd known how Caldwell had it in for him, he'd have missed him even less. That first day in the restaurant began a bitter, albeit one-sided rivalry between the two, a rivalry spanning years and employers.

Blade might have named Tomello to run the Fins' day to day operations, but that didn't mean the older rogues respected him. Alziri had wanted the job and many thought it should have gone to him.Stripes takes place in Sangrar, the setting for the Tale of Ages. It begins in the year 4725, a year before the GOd-Emperor exiles Hali.

What do jazz, coffee, football and ninja girls have in common? Me, that’s who, Mason Ezekiel Barnes. I’m a retired NFL tackle turned author, a big-headed man (as in large, not proud) living in a world dominated by small-headed people. Pinhead insults wear thin, especially when they come from Conrad Bancroft, whose head isn’t much bigger than a light bulb. That twerpy little gnome thinks he can write better than me and he writes about buffalo for God’s sake. Which would you rather read, a t...

Which would you bet on? If you picked the bull, get good odds. High Warden Avery Tavistern knows which one to put his coin on and it's a bet that pays handsome dividends.The Bull and the Rat takes place in Sangrar, the setting for the Tale of Ages. It begins in the year 4716, ten years before the God-Emperor exiles Hali.