Our Second Episode of the SDM Coffee Hour is coming up at 10am!

Check out today’s episode of the SDM Coffee Hour that will be going live at 10am Pacific this morning. Today we’re going to be talking about community leadership and corporate responsibility. Then we’ll discuss a business case involving a surfboard manufacturer and their new product.http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf

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SDM Coffee Hour – Corporate Responsibility & Surfing Innovation

Our second episode of the SDM Coffee Hour is now up. Hosted by Scott Moe, this episode included the amazing, marketing-wunderkind Jennifer Mau in the studio and consultant extraordinaire Betsy Johnson on the phone.This week we talked about the ups and downs of corporate responsibility within organizations and communities. Then we discussed a business test case on the value of a potential surfing innovation by a Southern California start-up.Enjoy!  

SDM Coffee Hour – The Workaholic Boss

 The first episode of the SDM Coffee Hour is up!The SDM Coffee Hour is meant to be a weekly discussion on business and management issues with SDM Advisory Group and expert guests.Today, in our first episode, we spoke with Betsy Johnson, Senior Consultant with SDM Advisory Group and with Jennifer Mau, Communication and Marketing Consultant.We discussed modern leadership and then discussed a business case involving a workaholic boss.Don’t miss our End of Episode Rants about our thoughts on what businesses should stop doing. Cheers! 

Broken Glass

Monday morning started out the usual way with the frantic rushing to get the girls to school. I was emptying the dishwasher while K was making lunches. The girls were upstairs, hopefully getting dressed. There were 23 minutes till K and the girls needed to be out the door, go go go, THIS IS NOT A DRILL! GO!crash!I’ve been a parent long enough to not immediately run when I hear a loud thump, pounding or crash. As I’ve tried to explain to friends without kids, it’s not the sound, it’s what comes after. Usually, there’s a loud “sorry” or “oops” or “ah! That didn’t work!” within 3 seconds that helps you decide what the next step should be.This time… nothing. We were running up the stairs before we even said anything to each other.Upstairs Teja was wrapped in a towel and started to explain “Mom, I’m sorry, I don’t know…” before bursting into tears. A few seconds later we saw that her foot was bleeding.It was a few moments before we could tell what happened. Teja had recently started using the upstairs show, which used two sliding glass panels as a shower guard. The panels hadn’t been installed properly along the bottom before we moved in, and could swing out if pushed. When Teja was walking out of the shower, the panel had swung out and crashed back into the other panel, shattering into a thousand pieces of safety glass.She was stepping out of the shower when it happened, and had been hit by the glass, giving her a dozen tiny cuts down her ankle and foot.I carried her to her bed and held her until she calmed down. I cleaned the glass off of her and disinfected her cuts. She was scared. I was scared. As I helped her get dressed and got her ready for school, I realized I hated that the whole event had happened. I can handle if my kid gets a bruise if she does something silly or a bump from roughhousing. Those moments are necessary. They’re learning moments in life that they have to have. But the shower of broken glass had been a random event and she had been hurt. I hated that I wasn’t there to stop it, and I still hate the fact that I can’t be there for all those senseless, unexpected moments.But, I can’t.