By Patrick McNerthney I’m super good at getting caught up in what I call The Tidal Wave of Busyness at Work. And by “at Work,” I don’t mean “at my place of employment.” Or your place of employment, for that matter, particularly because we don’t work together and...
By Patrick McNerthney One of the worst jobs anyone could get anywhere– and this goes for private, public, and non-profit organizations–is that of (cue eerie music) Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). It’s so bad, in fact, you literally couldn’t pay me to do...
By Patrick McNerthney Sometimes there’s this thing that happens to writers where they end up writing for the wrong person because sometimes “being lazy” and “being self-involved” collide. I.e., we reclusive, grumpy, writer-types will receive a...
By Patrick McNerthney Back in the good ol’ days we couldn’t listen to the music we liked whenever we wanted. At least when it came to broadcast media. That’s right—we were subject to whatever the radio station or MTV decided to play next. No choice. Nowadays, in our...
By Patrick McNerthney Recently a freelance client called me “quirky” right to my face. It wasn’t an accusation or criticism, nope. It just slipped out mid-sentence when we were renegotiating our professional arrangement. In fact, I don’t think he even...