Sunday, July 13, 2014 Today my mother and my grandmother are joining Carole and me for dinner in our new residence. We’ve been living in the new condo for almost a full week. But I leave early in the morning and I never return before 6:30 in the evening. Of course this is by choice, […]

Saturday, July 12, 2014 Life is good. I spent the day working with the team of new hires. They really impress me. They have the exact work ethic that I was looking to find. I’m looking forward to building a team around them. I call them the A team. They all worked exceptionally hard to […]

Friday, July 11, 2014   I’ve been invited to participate on an advisory council for the Parole Release and Revocation Project. The Robina Institute of Criminal Law and the University of Minnesota Law School are sponsoring the project. I’m looking forward to working with leaders from law, academia, and government. Not only will I be […]

Thursday, July 10, 2014 Today I finished listening to an audiobook. The book, titled Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions, by Keith Rosen. I’ve now listened to more than a dozen books through the Audible system, and I’m so grateful to have this resource. If it were not for Audible, I wouldn’t be able to access […]

Wednesday, July 9, 2014   This role I have of building a sales force gives me a lot of insight into the motivations of other people. I wrote an advertisement and published it on the professional jobs board known as Ziprecruiter. When people respond to the ad, I send out more information along with a […]

Tuesday, July 8, 2014 My wife and I moved from the condo where we’d been staying in Newport Beach to Irvine today. We really enjoyed living in Newport Beach since we moved down from our home in the San Francisco Bay area. The condo where we initially stayed was less than a half a mile […]

Monday, July 7, 2014 I’ve been working to teach principles of our Straight-A Guide program for a group of sales professionals. Earlier, I wrote about efforts I made to help Global Property Alliance build its sales force. We’ve been working as a team, and based on the extensive hiring procedures we developed, we hired eight […]

Sunday, July 6, 2014 A reader asked my thoughts on the subject of prison reform. My answer is simple. Our nation’s prison system is the slavery of our day and one of the greatest social injustices of our time. It perpetuates intergenerational cycles of failure. Rather than preparing people for success, prisons breed subcultures that […]

Saturday, July 5, 2014 A reader asked how I would assess the effectiveness of re-entry programs. I would look at the data showing high recidivism rates and conclude that despite platitudes about corrections, prisons are designed to perpetuate intergenerational cycles of failure. I would say that prisons succeed in keeping people isolated from society, and […]

Friday, July 4, 2014 Another reader asked what programs were available to inmates that would prepare them for re-entry.  The answer would depend on the definition and measurement of “programs” and the term “prepare for re-entry.” A prison that confines 1,000 people may reserve a room and fill it with 5,000 books. It calls that […]