Not What I Used to Be
Mother's Day 2022 is a few days from now. I was recently thinking about my Mom, who passed about four years ago just shy of 91, after a couple of years [...]
A Different Kind of Challenge
If your office is like ours, every so often someone cooks up a challenge that other team members eagerly take on, only to experience "buyer's remorse" afterwards. Last week, out of [...]
Pendant Automation Diary – What’s in a Team?
In a former life as an executive in the industrial chemical industry, as with any team, our team had a group of leaders with very different personality styles (as measured [...]
Pendant Automation Diary – It’s the Most Ugliest Time of the Year
Last year around this time, Jason hit us with a Griswoldian gem of an ugly Christmas sweater that had its own kind of charm. The Griswold sweater Even if you're not [...]
Pendant Automation Diary – Our Hometown
Yesterday our neighborhood held a community yard sale during the day, followed by a block party and bonfire in the evening. The yard sale experience, as my wife can attest, resides [...]
Pendant Automation Diary – The “Quotidian”
"Quotidian - occurring every day; daily" Each morning, Jason leads our team through a meeting we call "The Quotidian". It's a word Rob introduced to us earlier this year after he [...]