Communication

Management Skills: 5 Ways to Develop Mental Toughness

“History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.”
~ Voltaire

Demma’s 4 P’s: The fundamentals of management

It’s been a while since I’ve written about work. In fact, I haven’t done much…

Get to Know Me, From My Company’s Portal Blog

This month my company featured me on our portal in a blog-style interview. I thought I’d share since I haven’t posted much about work lately. Here you go:

Get to Know John Demma

Gut Check — Getting Back Up

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“I didn’t hear no bell.”[/caption]

This barber, he had to be seventy, was telling me once while trimming me up how he just had a whole bunch of cancer surgically…

Management Skills: Create Symbiosis

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Finding REMO[/caption]

That’s a picture of a cute little clownfish, we’ll call him Remo, swimming among sea anemone. Most fish would not be feeling too good right…

We All Know About the Same: Nothing

I’m a fraud and so are you. We run around pretending we know a thing or two about a thing or two. And we’re surround by all of these experts on subjects from economics to science to sociology to religion and the Big Question. Everyone’s such a smartypants.

Strategy: Cortez the Killer

In 1519 Hernán Cortés the Conquistador led a flotilla of 11 ships to the eastern shores of Mexico against the…

Management Skills: Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick

I swore I wasn’t going to be one of those parents who would toss empty threats at their kids to try to coerce them into good behavior. You know the old, “If you don’t stop I swear we’re not going to the park,” routine. I can hear my son…