Nothing is more inspiring than to see how founders and leaders alike have found innovative ways to right the ship or build a new one.They are powerful reminders for you to take nothing for granted … think originally … always...

You may find this an unlikely category in which to talk about stress and I agree it could appear in many different segments in Sword Tips. I've put it here to emphasize the effect of stress, how we manage it and how...

Each week, we’ll ask a question to get your best idea on a particular topic. The following week we’ll share your best tips. This Week’s Question: What’s the #1 App you use to manage your productivity, i.e., your To Do...

If you’re fan of the Mystery-Thriller-Suspense genre … then you’ve heard of Jack Reacher, the legendary progeny from the pen of Lee Child. I’ve read every one of the 26 novels, which began with the Killing Floor in 1995, a...

A flurry of Olympic activity is everywhere this week, so I'm sure you're having no trouble finding it. A couple things of particular interest, though. Almost 100% artificial snow? This is the first Winter Games to use almost 100% artificial...

Movie of the Night is an interesting site where you can search for movies you may like. What’s different is you can search based on the streaming services to which you subscribe … and then further segment by genre, actor,...

I heard from a CEO recently, with whom I’ve met and had dinner, but have not worked. He included this sentence in an email after a brief introduction: “So much is up in the air at the moment. Ugh. Whoever...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” ~ Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens’ famous opening sentence continues “It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was...

The Smell Identification Test is a comprehensive test that includes 40 different aromas. It is reportedly the most reliable with the correlation between the test and retest = .94. Many folks have made it fun by trying it in a...

Photo: carballo (Shutterstock) I don't know about you, but this never crossed my mind. How else should we hold our phone?Apparently, there's an issue called "smartphone pinkie", because the smaller size of the pinkie won't "tolerate the pressure and the...

If you're watching the Beijing Winter Olympics, you've seen that this theme is NOT the attitude of an Olympic Athlete. They are not quitters. Yes, they fall or make a slight error that costs them a spot on the podium,...

Not good. Teachers are leaving and few others are entering the field. Schools have been banning books for more than a century. Recently, Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, a Pulitzer Prize winner, was banned from a Washington State...

The Winter Olympics in Beijing are in full swing and it's exciting to see the camaraderie and kinship shared by so many, within the individual teams as well as across national boundaries This year, the power and challenges of team-building...

The Winter Olympic Beijing 2022 games begin tomorrow, and promise to be the most complicated Olympics in history. The complexity ranges from the protests against the country for its alleged human rights abuses, rising geopolitical tensions, warnings about cybersecurity and a...

You may have forgotten that the James Bond movie franchise first appeared in novel format. That’s why I included it here but it could easily be under Movies as well. In short, Ian Fleming, the author of the novels and...

I knew that nanotechnology involved very small atomic-level activities, but I forgot that nano means “one-billionth”, an incomprehensibly small piece of anything. There’s a lot of nanotechnology providing conveniences and capabilities already, but what’s coming is truly mind-boggling.

It’s no surprise that computing power is moving into the sports world with increasing speed… from Microsoft tablets in the NFL to supercomputers that have defeated the greatest chess players. But, that’s not all. In the Digital Demi-Gods of Dice, a...

It’s a little hard to get your head around how, with so much turmoil, pain and the unpredictable job market, that so many states are thriving with boatloads of money in their coffers. Along with the tax rebates and bonuses,...