http://moranatwork.com Nuts, Bolts, and Jolts: Business and Life Lessons Tue, 18 May 2010 00:42:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It’s a new low for the flying public.  For a frequent flyer who takes pride in knowing how to use the overhead space and never check a bag, it is the ultimate indignity.Spirit Airlines has declared that come Aug. 1, Spirit will charge passengers on domestic and international flights $30 ... http://moranatwork.com/?p=89 Friday, March 26, 2010Big fancy wine tasting events in these parts can be intimidating. Even though I am a local, these people who come from all over the world to swirl and taste our produce seem like silent experts who can manage to look smart while they make small ... http://moranatwork.com/?p=84 Anyone who owns a place in wine country is asked very predictable questions like, “Do they charge for tasting at (fill in the blank) Winery?” Or, “Do you know how to get us into the French Laundry?” Or, “How many grapes in a bottle of wine?”I don’t know the ... http://moranatwork.com/?p=83 When the UPS Guy rang the doorbell with the stack of big boxes I was excited and happy but I didn't open them right away. The boxes contained three hundred copies of my latest book, Nuts, Bolts and Jolts.  The publisher sent them to me so that I could send them ... http://moranatwork.com/?p=82 There is a new universal language.  It crept in sometime between the advent of the first fax machine and the death of the pager that we wore on our belts.  A quick quiz of most people about the universal language will generate responses like:·      A kiss.  It is the global signal ... http://moranatwork.com/?p=81 Image taken from Rottentomatoes.com  “You have to see it.  Have to.” The advice is about the movie “Up in the Air,” any everyone who works for a consulting firm, or has ever worked for a consulting firm, has heard that sentence by now.  As ... http://moranatwork.com/?p=80 Buzzwords in business come and go and right now there is a pretty good crop of good and bad ones circulating among the cubicle world.  Some are whispered in hushed tones next to the refrigerator note that shouts, “This ... http://moranatwork.com/?p=79     I bet just about everyone in wine country has been told something like, “You are living the good life.”  More times than I can count I have been told I am like Russell Crowe in the movie, “A Good Year”.  I just don’t look like him.  We are living the ... http://moranatwork.com/?p=78 I want to be a character. I want to be around characters, they make life more interesting. Not the weird scary guys but the ones who live a full life — the ones who people want to be around. People find characters fascinating because they have so many dimensions, and ... http://moranatwork.com/?p=77 We bought our home in the wine country for my daughter's wedding. She was three years old at the time. She is now in high school and knows this story although she has not committed to the location.I continue to tell her that after medical school (or other appropriate vocation) ... http://moranatwork.com/?p=76