Random thought #1: Why is it that we know all the words when we sing along with a song on the radio, but could never in a million years remember them if we tried to sing them on our own? It's like when we learn how to cook something from reading a...

Paul Graham offers a very interesting idea: That people tend to work either on a maker's schedule or a manager's schedule. Here's his description: ...

I ran out of steam on Friday, but here are a few more meetings-related blogs I've added to my blogroll in recent times: ...

I'm sad to hear that Eunice Kennedy Shriver has passed away. Whatever your politics may be, please join me in celebrating the life of an amazing woman who founded something that has had great meaning to someone close to me: The Special Olympics...

It's been a while since I updated my blogroll, so I figured I'd spend my Friday off going through my various feeds and adding some of those new-to-me blogs I want to share. Here are some of the ones I've been adding, in no particular order: ...

I remember reading on the listservs a while back about all the crazy demands some celebrities put in their contract riders (ah hem, Mary J. Blige, do you really need a new toilet seat installed just for your use?). Then today on BoingBoing I saw...

Doesn't seem possible that ASAE and The Center's annual meeting is coming up that fast! I've just started looking through the sessions, and it seems like there is more juicy meeting planning content than usual this year. If anyone reading this has...

Check out this headline: A 91% Decline in Wynn Resorts Profits are no Cause for Concern: Still Produce a Profit and Company Shares Surge After Report. Hard to imagine this is even possible, but evidently, it is. Oh to have margins like that...

I've been noticing some interesting trends in how I connect with people lately. It seems like people don't leave comments here on the blog very often anymore (not that they ever did all that much), but more are responding when the post goes up on...

Someone just asked me for a list of my favorite association bloggers. While I can list a bunch of blogs I love about managing associations and meeting planning, I really don't follow many actual association blogs (other than the American Society...