Mike Gfeller | August 20, 2014
There are vending machines everywhere selling water, beer, soda, energy drinks, etc. You drink one and then look for a place to put it and you find there are no trash cans. In the states this would give free reign to those who would litter. Here it means you carry around trash for hours. I’m […]
Mike Gfeller | August 19, 2014
I woke up at 2AM and started writing my blog for Day 2. I updated the schedule so that it would be ready to review with Wolfgang when he awoke. I also sent to John per his request since he would be joining us in Kyoto on Tuesday night and essentially be embedded with us […]
Mike Gfeller | December 13, 2012
Good afternoon folks, I’m a bit embarrassed to discuss the topic I am about to cover just because I think it is the most obvious thing to do and yet I don’t believe most of us that either manage or have managed people have performed this at all. It’s about discovering what you are best at […]
Mike Gfeller | September 9, 2012
I don’t know what it is about a tractor that is comforting. Maybe a person has to grow up around tractors. You know, have an uncle or a grandfather that drove one when they were a kid. Maybe they even went so far as to attend a tractor pull. I’ve been to a few. My grandfather […]
Mike Gfeller | July 16, 2011
It might be the chair, the music, the people, or the atmosphere. It might be the smell or the location. It might be the food, and quite possibly the drink. People have the need for familiarity. There is nothing comforting about trying someplace new. Comfort comes with familiarity, just the way it did when you […]