The Washington Post reported that AIG went through with a convention for their top earners.
Lawmakers fumed last week when they learned that the company paid $440,000 for a week-long resort retreat in California for top-performing insurance agents. The expenditure occurred just days after Sept. 16, when the government announced its $85 billion loan. This month, as AIG [...]

I love halloween…. it’s about the only time of the year that we, as adults, can dress up and act weird and not get fired.  And we can do it sober.
Besides dressing up — this year I’m gonna dress as a rock star — I love to kid around with the little trick or treaters [...]

LaffyTaffy is a crappy, horrible, nasty candy. And I love it.
Let me explain:
I was goofing with my kids lately, and they were eating LaffyTaffy. (In case you don’t know it, this is a chewy candy that adults generally hate and kids generally love.)
The interesting thing about LaffyTaffy is that it makes my kids [...]

I don’t care what side of the political divide you’re on, Sarah Palin makes for some tasty jokes.
One thing is for certain:  she is funnier and easier to tease than Senator Biden.  As a humoristspeaker and comedian, the most fun would  be had with Obama and Palin winning office together.  Too bad they can’t be [...]

Tim Conway has to be one of the best sketch comedians ever. I grew up watching him, Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman make each other laugh.
What impresses me about this clip is that it holds up. It is still funny today. (And how many shows from the 70s can we say that [...]

I was recently speaking in Seattle, Washington and had a chance to finally see the Pikes Place Fish Market in action.  (In case you don’t know it, Humor in the Workplace speakers have turned the Fish Philosophy into a near cliché.)
As you know (unless you’ve lived in a cave) the Fish Market is famous for [...]

Do you think humor increases your ability to perform?
I just read (belatedly…. It’s been busy) an article about the golfers in the The Ryder Cup.
One US player, Anthony Kim, had everyone on the US team laughing.“He’s a funny guy,” said Paul Azinger, the USA team captain.
And then, after a 9 year drought, the USA team [...]

I got a kick out of this funny tee shirt. What cracks me up is how this shirt isn’t far from the truth.
Would you have the guts to wear it to a community college?
How else could you offend the “hand that feeds you?”  What is the worst tee shirt you could imagine wearing at work?
How [...]

As I blogged earlier this week, I was recently invited to do my motivational humorist speaker thing in Washington for Microsoft.  
After they booked me, I called the meeting planner and explained that, “I have some PowerPoint slides, but they are on a Mac.”   “No sweat, our creative people often use Macs…you’ll be fine.” [...]

If you think levity and lightheartedness are important to corporate America, join the crowd.  In particular, join the folks at Microsoft Finance North America. 

I worked with this group recently in Seattle, Washington and, like most of my favorite clients, I learned at least as much from them as they learned from me.
(Read the related blog [...]