8 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Bosses - The best managers have a fundamentally different understanding of workplace, company, and team dynamics. See what they get right.

I took this link from inc.com and found it to be a very good and accurate read.
Management Secrets: Core Beliefs of Great Bosses

2012 NW Foodservice Show - Seattle

I have to say, the Foodservice show this year was a lot of fun! I went to scope out the best area for a booth in the years to come; to see which areas drove the most traffic and which areas were too congested to engage in meaningful discussion. It seems as though the hot ticket to get people to your booth this year was to offer free frozen yogurt - I was guilty of a sample, even from another insurance booth :) They knew who I was, so I didn't fee bad!

If you run your own restaurant or bar, you definitely owe yourself a trip to the show. Just don't wait too long and miss the free online registration! I missed it by ONE day and ended up paying the $25 - which isn't bad, but still...free would have been much better :)

Looking forward to having a booth when it comes back to Seattle in 2014. Can't decide whether or not we should do Portland; not sure it would bear much fruit for us down there.

Golfing Fever

Is it just me, or did more people start golfing on a regular basis this year?? I know I did! I went from going every now and then to at least twice a week this summer - I don't know what got into me! Golf has pretty much taken presidence over all other activities - including baseball and hiking! Something about being out on the course, relaxing and spending time with friends...I couldn't seem to get enough this year.

I bought a new driver (swapped my R9 SuperTri for the Burner Superfast 2.0) and I also bought some new irons...I first went with the Mizuno MP-57's but then realized that I wasn't good enough to hit those, haha. So I ended up purchasing the Mizuno MX-1000's and I seem to be doing fairly well with those. Although, the Mizuno JPX-800's are looking pretty tempting as well! If you can't tell, I like the Mizuno irons. I was hitting the Titleist dci981's for a long time and decided to do some research on irons...I found that the Mizuno's were the highest regarded club maker on the tour right now, so I gave them a try.

I'm wondering how long into the winter I'll continue playing this year. I'm not a huge fan of playing in the rain, and the cold isn't any more appealing - but who knows, perhaps I'll buy some winter golf gloves and keep playing till the warm weather comes back!