Life Back West

Sometimes you don’t value something until you know you’re about to lose it, or it’s lost. When Pauline’s Pizza , home of legendarily, serious pesto pizza closed after 33 years, I th...

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It’s 6 months from now in mid-September 2021, and my son Traylor has his first weeks of college freshmen year in Rhode Island under his belt. Star Trek’s Mr. Spock once said “The needs of ...

http://backwest.com/the-green-badge-letter-from-the-future/

The 2020 US Presidential election is over. The insurrectionists inspired by Donald Trump that tried to stop the counting of electoral votes and take over the US Capitol were defeated. Wounds are...

http://backwest.com/the-exec-suite-can-your-afford-to-hire-the-ever-trumper/

My son Traylor is just one of the 3.7 million high seniors figuring out what next year holds. When you’re 18 years old, life experiences are limited and ideas of what’s possible fewer. Lo...

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  Common for sales and many service people, working remote has been hit and miss for so-called knowledge workers  –  people whose main capital is knowledge and information such as programm...

http://backwest.com/remote-work-the-horse-is-out-of-the-barn-will-it-ever-come-back/

The opening line from Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities comes to mind: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it wa...

http://backwest.com/covid-19-pandemic-silver-linings-playbook/

It was front page news, until it wasn’t; a white person playing the race card on a Black man in New York City’s Central Park on Memorial Day. The viral video of George Floyd’s tragic deat...

http://backwest.com/privilege-meets-amygdala-are-we-white-people-all-amy-cooper/

What we’re missing,” my colleague Deena Fischer observed, “is all the in-betweens.” Deena’s referral was to the dynamics of our four day in-person coaching development sessions; break...

http://backwest.com/lost-in-translation-the-ties-that-bind/

The time around Thanksgiving is my absolute favorite (great food, few surprises, and basketball season gets in gear) but it gets sobering fast when people die. These last seven days were sober i...

http://backwest.com/thanksgiving-2019-the-only-thing-i-can-do-is-say-i-love-you/

Good job hunting takes time. Now is THAT time to start. While you’ll sometimes see churn at the end of the year – my old shop, for example, is hemorrhaging as people leave and folks  com...

http://backwest.com/start-your-2020-job-search-now/